CD Titles and Songs

deejayalumni wrote on 6/22/2005, 4:30 AM

Is there a place in Vegas 6 to list the title of a CD and to make a list of the names of the songs so that this information will be displayed when the CD is played on a computer or any other device that displays this information?

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drbam wrote on 6/22/2005, 6:18 AM

No. You need the latest version of CDA for this.

drbam

deejayalumni wrote on 6/22/2005, 12:58 PM

Thank you for the information. What is the the latest version?

merlyn wrote on 6/22/2005, 2:51 PM

You may want to check out the CDA forum because from what I can gather over there, there seems to be a problem with CD Text in CDA 5.2.

here is the link to the thread:

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=376218&Replies=2

farss wrote on 6/22/2005, 10:16 PM

Me thinks that's just someone who'se a tad confused.
CD text is working 100% correctly for me, I can verify that with Plextools. Thing is though very few CD players or PC based players read CD Text (WMP being one), but it is very handy if for nothing else than annotating tracks for later reference.

MJhig wrote on 6/23/2005, 5:45 AM

Thing is though very few CD players or PC based players read CD Text (WMP being one)

That's why I keep Siren installed (love it) as it reads CD-Text. Ironic since Sony apps. didn't produce it until this year and Siren supported reading it years ago. Siren even has the option to write to CDplayer.ini after edits.

The old Windows CD Player of Win 98 days supported CD-Text and wrote it to CDplayer.ini. Zach, one of the WMP developers is quite arrogant about the way WMP handles it's media library... "Much more advanced than CDplayer.ini". That's fine and dandy for commercial CDs or if you take the time to go through the CDDB verifying each track if the correct album is listed but reading CD-Text simply works elegantly :O.

I've converted the majority of my vinyl collection now, some ~1000 albums and CD-Text is crucial for CD-Rs (vinyl). I also rip to MP3 for the car so I can get over 15 albums/CD. WMP for commercial CDs and Siren for CD-Rs is my technique.

I believe WinAmp reads CD-Text also but I don't have it installed anymore.

I've seen many current CD players support CD-Text and MP3 meta-data including my $37 US Emerson walkman style CD player from... you guessed it, Sam Walton.

MJ

merlyn wrote on 6/23/2005, 8:01 AM

Farss: Sorry if I was mistaken. I dl'd the trial version and couldn't get the CD Text to work, although your point on the players not being able to read CD Text makes sense.