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

Btw your got your kit now m8?

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

Anyways - do you burn audio and get text?

Jarv

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

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?

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?

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

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

Nice

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

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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.