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Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-12-2006 19:09:

Text Display On CDJ1000MK3

The text diplay on the 1000mk3, I know it displays track data of MP3 discs.

I'm only going to be burning audio CDs. An old friend of mine used to burn his audio CDs so that the track data was displayed on the head unit of his car stereo.

My question is: can the 1000mk3 display such data on audio CDs and how do you burn it?

I'm not sure but with the extensive fruitless search I've just done I came across something that suggested that perhaps the data was called metadata - although this may be entirely incorrect.

Cheers for any help......

Jarv

Posted by Penfold99 on Dec-12-2006 20:49:

I think if the mp3s have info in the idtags, all you need to do is burn the disk so it displays cd text.

Posted by Penfold99 on Dec-12-2006 20:50:

Btw your got your kit now m8?

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-12-2006 21:03:

1000s arriving tomorrow - who knows when the 800 will get here!?

Anyways - do you burn audio and get text?

Jarv

Posted by Ryan0751 on Dec-12-2006 21:13:

The feature you are looking for is called "CD-Text":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Text

The 1000's DO support cd text. It's an option in Nero (PC) and Toast (Mac). I'm sure other applications support it, but you usually have to enable it in options. iTunes 7.0 (the new one) also supports it.

FYI: Metadata is a generic computer science term to mean "data about data".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-12-2006 21:24:

Good knowledge.

I read here: http://www.infopackets.com/channels..._track_name.htm

that you have to have compatible writing software AND CD burner?

Sounds like a crock of shite to me, surely the software is enough?

The only reason I ask is I burns a CD with text, yet Media Player 11 doesn't display the track name, even though it was definately burnt with the data.

What gives?

Posted by Ryan0751 on Dec-12-2006 21:31:

Oh I'm pretty sure any CD burner you've bought in the last 5-10 years supports it.

Remember that not all software can support reading back the CD-text... perhaps windows Media does not? If you put in a commercially available CD (think Britney), Windows Media Player gets the track names off the net from CDDB, not the CD itself. In fact, most commercial CD's don't even use cd-text.

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister
Good knowledge.

I read here: http://www.infopackets.com/channels..._track_name.htm

that you have to have compatible writing software AND CD burner?

Sounds like a crock of shite to me, surely the software is enough?

The only reason I ask is I burns a CD with text, yet Media Player 11 doesn't display the track name, even though it was definately burnt with the data.

What gives?

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-12-2006 21:37:

Fair enough - I'll wait till i get the old CDJ1000s tomorrow, just thought that MP11 would support it

Cheers for all the helpful info though!

Cheers

Jarv

Posted by Penfold99 on Dec-12-2006 22:11:

yea I noticed media player dont display names, but cdj does fine..

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-12-2006 22:53:

Nice

Posted by Tony Morello on Dec-13-2006 01:55:

make sure your ID2/3 tags are proper, audio cds will display text on the 1000's, i know the mk3s do, pretty sure the mk2's do as well, not sure about the first gen

Posted by AnomalyConcept on Dec-13-2006 15:48:

It's always a good idea to double-check that the tags aren't truncated in the burning program.

My burning software (Nero 6) sometimes does this; I usually fix it manually, since I add in some additional information in there anyway.

Posted by nec on Dec-13-2006 19:48:

My 800 mk2's support CD-text so I guess 1000s should display it too. Just burn cds in a proper way..

Posted by Treo on Dec-13-2006 21:31:

yup my cdj-200's show cd-text (artist, title, album) as well s� the 1k mk3's better do that too..

Posted by DJRecess on Dec-13-2006 21:51:

My MkIII's are nice and happy with the CD-Text when burnt as proper Audio CD's rather than MP3 Cd's.

Just be sure to check that the CD text did in fact go on there. I've got problems with my copy of Nero on PC and Itunes 7 on my Mac - where they quite happily tell me that they're burning the CD text, but they're lying to me...

I've got a handy script though that sends my iTunes playlists to Toast as aiff files with CD text for the burn - so it's all good in the end.

(that said though, the best script I've got is one that swaps the Album and Genre data - so iTunes will burn into folders arranged in Genre instead of album...)

Off-topic there I guess - but - you'll be fine with Audio CD's - just make sure what you use definitely DOES put CD-Text on to the CD, and you'll be happy as a larry.