CD Track Info

Archived from groups: rec.audio.tech (More info?)

In article <d7pda6$fot$1@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>,
Archie <archie@nospam.com> wrote:

>A home made CD (but not by me) used in my car audio system seems to contain
>track info.
>The name of each track (song) is displayed on the display of my car audio.
>
>When I try to copy this CD to my PC, this track info is not displayed.
>I have tried MusicMatch, Nero, MS-MediaPlayer.
>When I try to copy commercial CD's the track-info is displayed, but this
>seems to be obtained from the internet.
>
>How can I display/use the track info stored on the CD?

The homemade CD very probably uses the CD-Info extension feature. The
title information is merged into the table-of-contents subcode data.

Some, but not all computer CD-ROM and CD-RW drives can read or write
it. It's possible that your computer's drive doesn't have firmware
which can read it, and it's also possible that the programs you
mention aren't programmed to request it even if the drive supports it.
You might check the program menus and see if you can find any mention
of CD-Info - there might be a separate command to retrieve the data.

On Linux and *BSD variants, you can use the "cdrdao" program to read
the table-of-contents and extract the CD-Info data. I understand that
current versions of the "cdda2wav" program can also do this, writing a
*.inf file with the data.

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