fireberd


Are you recording "Disk at Once" (DAO) with Nero?  You need to use the DAO to get text on an audio CD.

I find some CD players (that are capable of displaying titles) will and some will not.  Playing on a PC, is the same way some show up and some do not.

As far as the PC goes, it will never show up unless you submit the info to the online data bases. Like Gracenote, AMG Lasso, Freedb and MusicBrainz. If you submit to all of these, your info will show up on the pc.
 
Cj

I have a Creative (SoundBlaster) player (a software enhancement/add on to the PC's RealTek audio) and it shows the titles of CD songs, without any Gracenote or whatever data base listing.

fireberd


I have a Creative (SoundBlaster) player (a software enhancement/add on to the PC's RealTek audio) and it shows the titles of CD songs, without any Gracenote or whatever data base listing.

Then they where registered already. Most, if nort all releases songs ahve been added to the databases.
 
FYI ,i would not say i have a Sound Blaster conencted to my Realtec OUT LOUD.  It will be our little secret that you use them :)
We need to get you a new card ASAP!!

What he ( fireberd) is saying is that most modern CD's have the info embedded, so even without an internet connection the titles will show. My DAW is not on the internet,,, 2 miles away from it,, and some CD's will list titles and album art in WMP. I think they are any of the newer ones. Thanks Jack, I'll try switching modes.

VariousArtist


For mp3 you can embed the ISRC into the song file itself.  A tool like mp3tag is perfect for the job.

For wav, I'm not sure you can embed the ISRC into the song file -- at least not in a recognised and accepted protocol.  

Typically the ISRC would be added to the CD that contains all the song files that are sourced from those WAV files, along with any other CD text that most players would recognise and retrieve accordingly.

Pretty much anything that can be encoded onto an mp3, and more, can be embedded into a wav file, including bitmaps etc. ISRC codes embedded into mp3 files are not considered common either, they are usually embedded into the id3 tag which is not the same as the file per se.
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/isrc_handbook.html#Heading296
 
see section3.7.8
 
section 3.7.7 deals with wav and other forms of electronic distribution
 
Most pro audio editors will encode this information using the File Info command to edit the metadata, or by using the accepted and recognized XMP/XMPP format:
http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/overview.html
Also worth a read:
http://johnvestman.com/ISRC.htm

The CD I tested my PC with was one that I created from a session I did for a songwriter.  It has never been submitted to any on-line database.  I also tried a couple of more that I created that have never been submitted to any database and they too came up with the titles. 

Windows Media Player, on the other hand only lists them as track numbers.

I need to install iTunes on my new PC as I need that for support for my iPad.  I'll try these with the iTunes player after I get it installed.
 
The Soundblaster is not a hardware sound card.  Its just some additional software that came with the applications software that Gigabyte supplied with the driver disc for my new motherboard.  Dell uses the terminology "software enhancement" and where I got that from.  I wouldn't have an actual SoundBlaster sound card on my PC.