medjuck Posted January 7, 2007 Report Posted January 7, 2007 A friend sent me a cdr of a recording he'd downloaded (I think from e-music). It was a compilation called Be-bop Revisited. The only information he included was the name of the band leader or group on each cut (eg Oscar Pettiford, Al Haig.) Recently I was using a rented car and stuck this cd into the car's player. I glanced down and noticed-- much to my surprise- the the cd/radio's read out was showing the title of each cut. Then I almost drove off the road when it gave not only the name of the group but added the names of band members! Usually about 4 then just saying "plus others". (Eg Oscar Pettiford and his 18 All Stars with Dizzy Gillespie, Trummy Young, Don Byas, Shelly Mann and others". I got very excited (I'm easily excited) at the prospect of finding this kind of discographical information on other cds, but much to my chagrin even though I tried regular cds, cdrs and downloads I never found another one on which the player was able to find any information except the track number. And I never found another player that displayed such information from this cdr. I've since returned the car so can't experiment any more. So my question is: What the hell is going on here? Quote
Kyo Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 Sounds like the CD-R was burned with "CD Text" information. Quite a few major label discs feature this, too (especially those from Sony). Quote
Dan Gould Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 I've noticed this phenomena on just a few, but hardly all, CDRs that I've burned or received, when I pop them into the PC to spot-check, Windows Media Player will display the album cover and songs. Freaked me out, too, the first time. I figured that there is a little tiny info file at the start - my wife actually guessed that WMP searches for matching song lengths to figure out what record it is. Yeah, right - with the thousands and thousands of new releases every month, it can do that and never be wrong. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 If you burn from mp3s, they contain a lot of information about the record (if the mp3s are probably compressed to begin with). Quote
rostasi Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) I've noticed this phenomena on just a few, but hardly all, CDRs that I've burned or received, when I pop them into the PC to spot-check, Windows Media Player will display the album cover and songs. Freaked me out, too, the first time. I figured that there is a little tiny info file at the start - my wife actually guessed that WMP searches for matching song lengths to figure out what record it is. Yeah, right - with the thousands and thousands of new releases every month, it can do that and never be wrong. Wellll, actually...she's right! The CDDB does just that. I've made CD-R versions of LPs without embedding any info and after the disc is loaded up, it shows what CD it is because there's already been an official CD release of it in it's database complete with song lengths in that particular order. It can sometimes be real cRaZy if you only have a single long track. The database usually shows up with multiple choices - usually of someone's techno remix project. --- Now playing: Derek Bailey - No East Edited January 10, 2007 by rostasi Quote
Dan Gould Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 I've noticed this phenomena on just a few, but hardly all, CDRs that I've burned or received, when I pop them into the PC to spot-check, Windows Media Player will display the album cover and songs. Freaked me out, too, the first time. I figured that there is a little tiny info file at the start - my wife actually guessed that WMP searches for matching song lengths to figure out what record it is. Yeah, right - with the thousands and thousands of new releases every month, it can do that and never be wrong. Wellll, actually...she's right! The CDDB does just that. I've made CD-R versions of LPs without embedding any info and after the disc is loaded up, it shows what CD it is because there's already been an official CD release of it in it's database complete with song lengths in that particular order. It can sometimes be real cRaZy if you only have a single long track. The database usually shows up with multiple choices - usually of someone's techno remix project. --- Now playing: Derek Bailey - No East I can't believe that, but it is true that I've made CDRs of LPs that have popped up with such info. I always figured that since I manually edit LPs that the differences in track length would screw it up, yet when its happened, I've never gotten anything to pop up but the correct recording. That's it, now I'm going back to just transferring Side A and Side B. Actually, when you think of it, this is the way to enforce copyrights. All Microsoft has to do is add the capacity to recognize that its a CDR and have a little bot that will send email notification to the law firm of Dewey Cheatham and Howe. They could even make the email look like a confession. Quote
rostasi Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 Yup, here it is - straight from the Wiki's mouth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#How_CDDB_Works --- Now playing: Frank Wright - Live in NYC (Part One) Quote
medjuck Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) Sounds like the CD-R was burned with "CD Text" information. Quite a few major label discs feature this, too (especially those from Sony). What kind of player do you need to see the information? And how do I find it on my Mac? BTW When I inserted this cd into my Mac all it showed was that the music was in the AAC format. Edited January 10, 2007 by medjuck Quote
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