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Burn CD with album/artist/track info

It is probably a stupid question, but I spend the whole day browsing this forum and cannot find the solution.

I've downloaded several lossless albums with corresponding CUE sheets. Interestingly, all CUE sheets refer to .wav files, while the lossless files (tracks) are .flac files. However, this is not my problem. I replace the .wav extensions in the CUE files with .flac and then the CUE file is loaded properly in Burrrn, showing all the correct album/artist/track info. I also have no problems burning the CD, but when I play back the CD I get to see "unknown album/artist" and no track titles. I have burned a few CD's that do play back with correctly, but most do not, and I just cannot figure out why. 

I add an example CUE file below that loads well, burns well but still gives me a CD without album/artist/track info:

REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 1996
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.95b3"
PERFORMER "Al Di Meola (1996)"
TITLE "Di Meola plays Piazzolla (1996)"
FILE "01 - Oblivion.flac" FLAC
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Oblivion"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Café 1930"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 06:01:56
FILE "02 - Café 1930.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Tango suite part I"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 06:13:06
FILE "03 - Tango suite part I.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "04 - Tango suite part III.flac" FLAC
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Tango suite part III"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Verano reflections"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 08:48:21
FILE "05 - Verano reflections.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Night club 1960"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 04:10:36
FILE "06 - Night club 1960.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Tango II"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 05:46:64
FILE "07 - Tango II.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bordel 1900"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 05:32:60
FILE "08 - Bordel 1900.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Milonga del angel"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 04:29:67
FILE "09 - Milonga del angel.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Last tango for astor"
    PERFORMER "Di Meola, Al"
    INDEX 00 03:45:55
FILE "10 - Last tango for astor.flac" FLAC
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Any help greatly appreciated! 

Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #1 –
2 simple questions:  Is your burner capable of CD-Text and is your reader capable of CD-Text?
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #2 –
Quote from: dreamliner77 on
2 simple questions:  Is your burner capable of CD-Text and is your reader capable of CD-Text?

If his reader were incapable, it wouldn't be showing "Unknown" in the first place.

AFAIK, if you burn the .CUE using EAC, it writes the CD-Text as the track name indicated in the .CUE file. Or so I've noticed from playback in my car.
EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High
 

Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #3 –
Quote from: dreamliner77 on
2 simple questions:  Is your burner capable of CD-Text and is your reader capable of CD-Text?


The answer must be yes to both, as some albums I burn do correctly show the artist/album/track info. So if it works for some albums, it cannot be a problem with my burner (Plextor PX-760SA) nor reader (Windows Media Player). Thanks anyway for thinking along. 

Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #4 –
I have an ASUS CD Writer and a Samsung TSST DVD Writer and use either of them to burn my lossless files to Audio CD format with CD Text support in Burrrn. I have had no problems whatsoever when playing them on my SONY Car Audio. It has displayed the CD Text info for every Audio CD that I have created this way.

However, I am not sure if WM Player or any other player on my PC shows the CD Text info as I use only compressed files (lossy and lossless) for PC playback, in which case Tags as per the respective format are present. I can only assume that they should be able to read the CD Text info. However, I shall check out the same and report the result here at HA.

Cheers
audiomars
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Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #5 –
Quote from: johstripper on
[...] (Windows Media Player).

WMP10 dosen't support CD-TEXT, or atleast not in it's default configuration. WMP looks up for it's metadata in some database, so that is propperly why it sometimes shows you the correct metadata. To check if the CD-TEXT has been written propperly to disc, then just load the disc into EAC and select to retrieve the data from CD-TEXT(if it's not doing it by default, allready).

Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Martin H on
Quote from: johstripper on

[...] (Windows Media Player).

WMP10 dosen't support CD-TEXT, or atleast not in it's default configuration. WMP looks up for it's metadata in some database, so that is propperly why it sometimes shows you the correct metadata. To check if the CD-TEXT has been written propperly to disc, then just load the disc into EAC and select to retrieve the data from CD-TEXT(if it's not doing it by default, allready).


Mmmm, I got some hope this might be the problem, however, I cannot retrieve the data from CD-TEXT. When I go to "Database \ Get CD Information From", the option CD-TEXT is greyed-out even when I use a CD that does show CD-TEXT in WMP, or even an original CD. More importantly, I tried the CD's on a CD-player and those that show CD-TEXT in WMP also show it in the CD-player, and those that don't show CD-TEXT in WMP neither show it in the CD-player. So WMP does not seem to be the problem.

Burn CD with album/artist/track info

Reply #7 –
Quote from: Martin H on
WMP10 dosen't support CD-TEXT

... and has also been replaced by WMP11 since last year. If you're gonna give advice, at least refer to the current version of the software in question.
EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High