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Q: Waveburner CD TEXT Burning! YES or NO?

Ok I've read so many post on whether Waveburner 1.6.1 can burn an audio CD with CD-text, and have it work on CD players that can read CD-Text. Well so far I haven't got any anwers. Some say it works, but other say it doesn't.

 

I have a project that I'm trying to burn an audio CD with the CD-Text option on, on my G5 quad-core 2.8ghz machine and Mac OS 10.6.7 and I've inserted all the information, and then do a burn with a CD-R disc, but no CD-text has come up on 3 different CD players that I've tried them on.

 

Can anyone tell me if the Apple Disc Burner can actually do this, or will it only work once I give the Master CD to a duplication house, which is what I'm about to do? Anyone's help is appreciated!

 

My burner info is the following: (I don't see CD-Text in the Write Strategies section, if it's suppose to be there)

 

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A:

  Firmware Revision:    1.NC

  Interconnect:    ATAPI

  Burn Support:    Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)

  Cache:    2048 KB

  Reads DVD:    Yes

  CD-Write:    -R, -RW

  DVD-Write:    -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

  Write Strategies:    CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

  Media:    To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

G5 MacPro 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.6), NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, 6Gig Ram, FCStudio, Logic Pro 9, Airport

Posted on Apr 26, 2011 9:12 PM

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  • by John Alcock,

    John Alcock John Alcock Apr 27, 2011 11:29 AM in response to micdim
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    Apr 27, 2011 11:29 AM in response to micdim

    Unless CDText shows up in CD-Write you're out of luck.

     

    Usually for most later CD drives you'll see this:

     

    CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC

  • by micdim,

    micdim micdim Apr 27, 2011 10:51 PM in response to micdim
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    Apr 27, 2011 10:51 PM in response to micdim

    actually it does show up on one of the car stereos I tried it on, but not on others.

  • by bradsarno,

    bradsarno bradsarno May 19, 2011 3:11 PM in response to micdim
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    May 19, 2011 3:11 PM in response to micdim

    Generally, it seems to work ok, but there is a bug they need to fix. For all CD-Text data entry positions, if you DON'T enter specific data, it shows up as question marks instead of simply blank. Just kind of a sloppy way to handle it. Blank is better than a question mark.

     


    Brad

  • by micdim,

    micdim micdim May 20, 2011 12:09 PM in response to bradsarno
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    May 20, 2011 12:09 PM in response to bradsarno

    Thanks for the info Brad!

  • by biigniick,

    biigniick biigniick May 26, 2011 1:58 PM in response to micdim
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    May 26, 2011 1:58 PM in response to micdim

    the cd-text also only shows up in some players.  there are 2 places the text info can be written and WB only writes it in one of those. . .  so, i have a Denon (R-W subchannel method) player that reads the cd-text and a marantz (lead in area method) that doesn't read it from discs burned in WB.  discs burned in WaveLab, Toast and a host of other programs show up in both players.

     

    this bug, along with the ? bug make it difficult for pros to use this program.

     

    - nick