I am presently embarking on converting my vinyl records to audio CD’s. I am successful in creating the .aud files and then added labels to name each audio track. I put each label just infront of the audio. I then export multiple to in the .wav format. I then use windows media player to burn the .wav file on to an audio CD. What was interesting is that the first Audio CD I burned I could extract the track labels to Was I lucky on the first one and how can I get lucky againprint on a case label. the next audio CD prepared in the same way has no track label information.
Standard audio CDs do not have any track or artist information. Windows Media Player (and others) try to find the track listing, and sometimes even the album art, by looking it up in a database. For commercial release CDs this is often successful, though the computer will need to be on-line if the media player is using an on-line database (which is usually the case).
There is an extension to the audio CD (Red book) format called “CD Text”. This is occasionally used on commercial CDs and may be used when you create a CD at home, but only if your CD writing drive and software support it. I don’t think that WPM supports writing CD Text, but CDBurnerXP (free) does, and so do many commercial programs such as Roxio and Nero, provided that CD Text is supported by your CD drive.
Sorry my message became jumbled towards the end. The text seems to have slipped so I thought I would correct and repeat it.
I am presently embarking on converting my vinyl records to audio CD’s. I am successful in creating the .aud files and then added labels to name each audio track. I put each label just in front of the audio. I then export multiple in the .wav format. I then use windows media player to burn the .wav file on to an audio CD. What was interesting is that the first Audio CD I burned I could extract the track labels on to a case label format to print. on the next audio CD prepared in the same way I could not get the track labels to print. Was I lucky on the first one and how can I get lucky again.
What I thought I was doing is adding the track label information to the .aud files so that this information would be part of the .wav files and then be available to be extracted.
I do note that when I export to the .wav files all the labels show correctly as the name of each file. This gave me hope.
It is still a confusion as to why it worked on the first audio CD that I burned but none after.
I will investigate if my CD supports writing
Many thanks for the help
Audacity is able to write metadata (like id3 tags) into WAV files, but Windows Media Player does not support metadata in WAV files.
I don’t know how much information, if any, WMP extracts from the file name (I don’t use WMP, so I can’t really help with that).