In Wavelab 12 I did everything to burn a CD. Audio montage with appropriate markers, Wizzard with check and also the CD text and meta information filled in. Unfortunately, after burning, the specified CD text is not taken over. Thank you in advance for your help!
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Hi!
Have you tried Import/read back Audio CD in WaveLab or do you use
external player to check CD-Text !?
regards S-EH
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What are you using to check the CD-Text? To the surprise of many people, iTunes/Apple Music and Windows Media Player cannot natively display CD-Text. They typically can only display CD info that is stored in an online database. If your newly burned CD is not in the database, the info will appear to be missing, even it’s on the CD as CD-Text.
Best to check in a car CD player or something that is known to display CD-Text…not Gracenote database (or other database) info.
WaveLab can examine a CD for CD-Text, and so can some other specific software but without a special script like the one I use from Doug’s Scripts, Apple Music/iTunes won’t show you CD-Text info.
To say any more, you would need to say how you are checking the CD for CD-Text. Most CD burners these days support reading and writing CD-Text but there is always a chance that your CD burner does not.
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Justin’s advice vis a vis CD-Text/iTunes is spot on of course. One other method for checking your text if you have an optical drive and a Mac is to use the Terminal utility (stashed of course in Applications>Utilities.
Launch Terminal, then with your disc in the drive, type “drutil cdtext” (no quotes) and hit return. You’ll get a very technical/code-y look at exactly what’s on the disc, but you’ll be able to see the performer and track title in there somehow. Here’s what I see for one track of a cool jazz CD I got as a gift:
DRCDTextPerformerKey
Lafayette Harris Jr.
DRCDTextTitleKey
Nat’s Blues
The performer is Lafayette Harris Jr., and the track title is “Nat’s Blues”.
BTW, you can also look at ISRC’s, type “drutil subchannel”. Fun (if you’re on a Mac)!
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I use a CD burner from Lite on my Mac. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find out from the manufacturer’s information whether my model can read CD text. I’ll try it with a friend whose CD player can also read CD text. Thank you for the quick reply and a happy new year
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Check out the “Terminal” as “Mulholland” write above here
Search for the “Terminal app” write in the terminal window
drutil info
then you get info what your CD/DVD burner is capable of like one of mine here… try it
Vendor Product Rev
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D SB06
Interconnect: USB
SupportLevel: Unsupported
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2048k
CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW, BUFE, Test
Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
regards S-EH