Recording My songs to CD

[Esoterra]

So...I've come up with some tight jams, and now I want to burn them to CD rom. I use Nero to burn my songs to CD in Wave format. But when I play the CD in Media Player, all the songs are untitled and artist name is not showing...even though I add the info. How do I have my media info read on the CD?

[DJDM]

I have the exact same problem! There is no way, despite every work around that I could come up with to add the info when you are burning.

What I did was create a work around that takes a little longer, but if you really want the track info on there it is the only way I could do it. To enact this fix you will need one burner and a second slave cd reader.

Try this:

Record a CD with your tracks on it and then place the burned CD into the slave CD reader. Open the "Copy CD" dialog. Enter the burn dialog and Nero will prompt you with somthing like, "Database not found, would you like to search for CD database or create your own?" Opt for "create" and enter all of the info in about the CD there.

Save the info after the burn is finished for recovery next time you burn a CD.

 

As an additional tip, once you have your songs selected on the original, (master), CD right click on them and in properties you can check "secured content" for each track. That is a small but potentially useful way to designate that the tracks are copyright protected down the line as tracks are copied.

 

Best of luck!

- DJDM

[daBowsa]

Are you burning them as .wav files or straight CD .cda files? As far as I know, song information isn't stored in either of these formats. Players like Media Player can look in a database to display this information, but the info itself is not stored in the file.

 

.mp3's DO store the information, however - and they're smaller than a .wav file. They use what is known as an ID3 tag (most new rippers/players recognize ID3v2 tags now) to store this data.

 

If you're going to burn as a normal CD, I do believe you can include the database file on the CD so that a computer could use the database to display the names if it wants to, but a normal CD player would just ignore it.

[Bobro]

You can put all kinds of info into a .wav file- name, copyright date, etc. that will show up when you look at "properties" of the file (right click). Some of this info- creator and copyright for example, shows up in Win Media Player.

 

Any audio editor should let you type this info into a .wav file. You can do it in CoolEdit, Soundforge, Samplitude....etc, probably all of them.

 

Like dabowsa was saying though, an audio CD that has text when played in a CD player has that courtesy of added information. Some progs let you write text, do hidden tracks, ignore the 2-second spacing standard and still be professionally reproducible, etc.

 

Anyway, what's your audio editor?

 

-Bobro