Just burning some master CDs to send off to a duplicator for them to make the glass master from.
 
Using Nero for burning, adding in title of CD, artist, track numbers and track names. These appear nicely when I play the CD on hi-fi or in van CD player, but in Windows Media Player, iTunes and VLC media Player, it comes up as 'unknown album' and just the track numbers and lengths, no track names.
 
Am I missing something in Nero, or is this just because the album isn't in the media players database?

I'm not sure that WMP even looks at the meta data on CDs. It gets its info from the web. It would be interesting to see what WMP would do with the internet disconnected. VLC is supposed to read ID3 tags, so no idea there. And iTunes comes from the new evil empire, so I stay as far away as possible.

WMP does not read CD text which is what the master is recording as track title etc. That is information that is encoded on normally unused areas of the CD itself, like an index and not as part of the individual tracks. Some commercial CD players do read CD text, which is how they get the track titles from the CD. WMP does in fact use an internet database to get information about track titles,and would be blind if no internet connection were available. ID3 tags are a feature of the MP3 specification and is encoded in the MP3 file itself; there is no equivalent tag for CD cuts that will follow them outside the CD.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text
 

iTunes currently uses Gracenote (internet database) ...
When you put your "finished" CD in and open iTunes you can label it and submit it to Gracenote. You should do this before somebody else does :) 
 
Windows Media works the same way but appears to use it's own system.

To heck with the naming issues, what's all this about a new CD James? 

codamedia
iTunes currently uses Gracenote (internet database) ...
When you put your "finished" CD in and open iTunes you can label it and submit it to Gracenote. You should do this before somebody else does :) 
 
Windows Media works the same way but appears to use it's own system.

 
Thanks Sean, I have a feeling we did that in the past, but it's been a long time since we did any CDs.

craigb
To heck with the naming issues, what's all this about a new CD James? 

Just about to get 50 copies of the 6 track Nettlesmith CD done. Sessions for the 2nd CD starting Oct 2nd...if I can get my head around a new PC with Windows 10 and new interface...

Is this another colab or a solo effort?  If there's only six tunes on it, then I'm expecting some long, progressive songs! 

Well you'll be disappointed then, although the 6 songs are 29 mins long all together 'Nettlesmith' is myself and Tim Wilkinson. The songs are on Soundcloud in my sig.

Same guy you worked with in Slow Marching Band?