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Home made CD iTunes ready?

Hello everyone!
I am new here, and for one reason only: When I make a CD (for example from my own vinyls) and then chuck it into the computer to import into iTunes, I do not get any info with it. I use Adobe Audition 2.0 for working with the wav files, there I add track info through File/File Info. I then burn the wav files to CD using Nero 6. And then all iTunes gets is "Track 01" etc. instead of the names of the songs, the artist etc. Why the hell is that?????
VERY grateful for info on how to do this.

Home made CD iTunes ready?

Reply #3 –
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Apparently, iTunes doesn't import CD Text. So, you get to re-type everything again.


No need to re-type, just use foobar2k, MediaMonkey, WinAmp, etc..

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Reply #4 –
Quote from: 2t0nEg on
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Apparently, iTunes doesn't import CD Text. So, you get to re-type everything again.


No need to re-type, just use foobar2k, MediaMonkey, WinAmp, etc..



CD text just adds the info in the window on certain stereos. How exactly do you mean the programs mentioned should be used here? I did get the info into iTunes on one CD I made, with wavfiles from cyberspace (unofficial live recording) so [blockquote]it is possible[/blockquote] to do this.

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Reply #5 –
Surely you don't have to burn the .wav files onto CD to get them into iTunes?

Can't you just say "look iTunes - there's the .wav files on my HDD"?

I don't know - I don't use iTunes. I know wav tagging is problematic - and iTunes knows what's on all your commercial CDs (i.e. sees a track listing) by grabbing it from the internet, not by reading it from the CD (because it isn't there! Except CD text - which is very rarely used).

Cheers,
David.

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
Surely you don't have to burn the .wav files onto CD to get them into iTunes?

Can't you just say "look iTunes - there's the .wav files on my HDD"?

I don't know - I don't use iTunes. I know wav tagging is problematic - and iTunes knows what's on all your commercial CDs (i.e. sees a track listing) by grabbing it from the internet, not by reading it from the CD (because it isn't there! Except CD text - which is very rarely used).

Cheers,
David.



Yes, well, what I do is for example make a CD from some vinyl not officially released and then I give such a CD to a friend or my daughter, and then I want it to work the rest of the way to iTunes and into their iPods. I have at least a couple of CD,s that could do this without help from the Gracenote database. I think it adds a bit of value to the CD. And when I drag a wav file which has all the info typed in using Audition it appears as "01 Audio Track". I really think it should be enough to write all the info just ONCE and then it will stay with the music wherever it goes. But the CD text thing in Nero does not do this.

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Anders

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I am new here, and for one reason only: When I make a CD (for example from my own vinyls) and then chuck it into the computer to import into iTunes, I do not get any info with it.
The artist/title information is not on the CD...  It comes from an online database...   iTunes gets a "signature" or "fingerprint" of the CD, and then it  looks for a matching fingerprint in the CDDB database[/u].  Of course, in the case of your homemade CD, there is no information in the database.

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Reply #8 –

Your basically S.O.L. itunes won't recognize the cd's cause they are not commerically available discs, it won't find any type of homebrew/mixtap burned cd.

Your best option is already mentioned, burn the discs with cd-text and then have your friends/family rip them with something that can read the cd-text (assuming that their cd-rom itself can read cd-text), or give them the wave/flac/mp3 files directly burned on a cd or dvd.

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Reply #9 –
Quote from: Buffalo Stomp on
I give such a CD to a friend or my daughter, and then I want it to work the rest of the way to iTunes and into their iPods.

And when I drag a wav file which has all the info typed in using Audition it appears as "01 Audio Track".


Why don't you go by the saying "Apple, it just doesn't work" and stop winning about something that Apple is the only one that can fix it, and which they will not.

You want to use two rarely used things, and want Apple to support them.. Go ask for money on the street next time. You'll have more luck on the latter.




(Yes, this thread is intentionally harsh against Apple).

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Reply #10 –
Quote from: [JAZ] on

Quote from: Buffalo Stomp on
I give such a CD to a friend or my daughter, and then I want it to work the rest of the way to iTunes and into their iPods.

And when I drag a wav file which has all the info typed in using Audition it appears as "01 Audio Track".


Why don't you go by the saying "Apple, it just doesn't work" and stop winning about something that Apple is the only one that can fix it, and which they will not.

You want to use two rarely used things, and want Apple to support them.. Go ask for money on the street next time. You'll have more luck on the latter.




(Yes, this thread is intentionally harsh against Apple).


Thing is, still, it CAN be done, I have both bought CDs and home burned from (someone else's) wav files that DID bring the info into iTunes.
Just don't know how, but NOT from database on the internet. Frustrating.

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Reply #11 –
Were those home burned CDs made with iTunes?  That would answer that portion as I can burn a custom audio CD using iTunes, take it to a completely different computer on a different network, pop the disc in, open up iTunes, and it will display the correct CD information.  I also thought that iTunes was capable of reading CD text.  It can certainly write CD text when recording CDs and I believe I have had past experiences when the CD text would be displayed despite me not being connected to the internet.

You may want to try burning the audio CDs with a different application.  What you should probably do is take your recorded WAV files, convert them to ALAC, import them into iTunes, work with the track tags, and go from there.  You could then share your music with USB thumb drives or even a secure network.  Using a lossless format such as ALAC or FLAC would ensure that you won't run into track tag issues.

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Reply #12 –
cd-text is also hardware dependent, meaning your burner or reader may not support it at all or very well.

Home made CD iTunes ready?

Reply #13 –
Home burned CDs that are an approximation to a commercial CD will be recognised.

If the track lengths are close enough, anything will recognise it.

If the track lengths are changed too much, but the audio still matches well enough, then supposedly the audio fingerprint methods will recognise it (doesn't always work for me).

If you have a set of audio tracks which have never been released on CD or included in any of the databases, then nothing will recognise it.


Now, dirty little secret: you can submit your home burnt CD to Gracenote and/or FreeDB, and then next time someone looks it up, it'll be there!

(You're not supposed to do this of course - but if you intend to give it to ten friends, I suppose it's no worse than a small indie release!).

Cheers,
David.
 

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Reply #14 –
Quote from: Buffalo Stomp on
Hello everyone!
I am new here, and for one reason only: When I make a CD (for example from my own vinyls) and then chuck it into the computer to import into iTunes, I do not get any info with it. I use Adobe Audition 2.0 for working with the wav files, there I add track info through File/File Info. I then burn the wav files to CD using Nero 6. And then all iTunes gets is "Track 01" etc. instead of the names of the songs, the artist etc. Why the hell is that?????
VERY grateful for info on how to do this.


Im new here to just to tell you that the only way i get the CD text on my CD's to be reconised on all computers is simple. on the burn menu check Audio CD, Incude CD text, and a 1 second gap between songs. thats all i needed to do. hope it helps you

Home made CD iTunes ready?

Reply #15 –
Quote from: SeanFitzsi on
Im new here to just to tell you that the only way i get the CD text on my CD's to be reconised on all computers is simple. on the burn menu check Audio CD, Incude CD text, and a 1 second gap between songs. thats all i needed to do. hope it helps you


I do the same with NO GAP. It works everywhere, But last time I checked iTunes ALWAYS gets names from the internet.