Song Titles

[wgray]

I have a project that consists of several songs. Is there a way to make Track Labels (Song Titles) so that when the project is burned to a CD, the titles are recognized by the CD player?

Using Windows 7.

Downloaded and Installed Audacity online.

[DVDdoug]

There is no 100% reliable way of doing that. But, look-up CD Text and make sure your CD burning application supports CD text.

Not all players & player software supports CD Text and not all CDs contain CD Text. (It's my understanding that most CDs don't have any artist/title/album information on them, but maybe most newer CDs do.) If you have a stand-alone CD player or an automobile CD player and you see artist/title information, that's CD Text.

Most CD player software on a computer takes a "fingerprint" of the CD and then looks-up the information online (CDDB or Gracenote) and downloads the information from there. (Thereafter, the information for that particular CD is maintained locally on your computer.) Of course, your homemade CD won't be in the online databases.

[wgray]

I thought I had added CD-TEXT when I put the song titles in the track labels. Then I did a multiple export as a wav file and finally burned this to a CD. But the CD player in my car doesn't recognize the song titles even though the manual says it does recognize CD-TEXT. Is there something different I can do so that ultimately my car CD player recognizes the song titles?

[DVDdoug]

Nothing ever works the 1st time on a computer!

. But the CD player in my car doesn't recognize the song titles even though the manual says it does recognize CD-TEXT.

I assume it works with commercial (store bought) CDs? That's great if your car player supports it!!!!

I thought I had added CD-TEXT when I put the song titles in the track labels. Then I did a multiple export as a wav file and finally burned this to a CD. But the CD player in my car doesn't recognize the song titles even though the manual says it does recognize CD-TEXT. Is there something different I can do so that ultimately my car CD player recognizes the song titles?

You need to set-up CD-TEXT in your CD-burning application. CD-TEXT has nothing to do with Audacity. Except that Audacity can "tag" files (such as MP3 or FLAC), and your burning application might be able to convert the tags to CD-TEXT.

I don't know if the "labels" from Audacity will be any help at all... You'll have to check the documentation for your burning application to first make sure it can burn CD-TEXT, and then to find-out how to get the CD-TEXT into your burning application.

A cue file is probably your best bet.

I don't even know if the Audacity labels are "lost" when you make a WAV file... Tagging/metadata is not well supported for WAV fies. But, even if Audacity can include the information in the WAV file, there's a chance that your burning application won't read it... If your burning application wants to read CD-TEXT from tags, FLAC (instead of WAV) will probably work better.

[steve]

Not all CD drives support writing CD Text. We have three laptops in the department at work - The CD drive in one of them supports writing CD Text but the other two don't. Most good CD writing programs (such as CDBurnerXP support CD Text, but the option is greyed out if the drive does not support it.

I don't even know if the Audacity labels are "lost" when you make a WAV file

Labels in Audacity have nothing to do with the audio tracks - they are completely separate. The label data is not incorporated into the exported audio file.