Submit to CDDB

CDDB is the Gracenote database that many applications, including iTunes, use to obtain artist, album and track information when an audio CD is imported. If you're going to be releasing your CD for sale, you'll want to insert a copy of your CD (do not import it, just let it mount in iTunes), edit all the information so that it's correct as regards artist name, album name, track names, genre, etc., and then use the Submit Track Names command. That way when people who buy your CD import it into iTunes, they'll get all the correct information.

Regards.

Would it be: Advanced / Get CD Track Names and Get Album Artwork instead?

Since it's a new CD and no info is in Gracenote, there's nothing to get.

Would the Advanced / Submit Track Names feature not work because I need to send a specific file type, such as MP3 vs. AIFF

No, because you are not submitting any files to Gracenote. You are only submitting information about a CD.

That's what I did, but that feature if greyed out.

Sorry if this sounds a silly question, but the CD does PLAY ok in iTunes? And it is split into recognisable tracks?

and a number of other songs in my iTunes player

Silly question #2 : you are connected to the internet when you try this?

+"That's what I did, but that feature if greyed out."+

For the feature to work, the CD must physically be in the drive and registered in iTunes, with all the track info displaying. Having the playlist open from which you burned the CD is not good enough.

If that was the issue, get the CD and try again.

Ah, yes.
He never mentioned CD at all.

"I tried to do this with my album and a number of other songs in my iTunes player"

A "CD" is a physical round object, although the term is occasionally misused to apply to a playlist of songs. 😉

Anyway, now that that's clear, let us know if it works.

Yes, just as you cannot "download a CD" from iTunes.
You can download an album or a song, but not a CD.

But many people use it generically, same as the do "mp3" and it drives me bonkers!

louisegd wrote:
Aaaah, yes, there was no mention of the actual "physical" CD needing to be in the player. I thought I could do this with the uploaded tracks "from the CD" I added to my iTunes library.

Chris CA wrote:
Ah, yes.
He never mentioned CD at all.

Erm... *cough cough*

Dave Sawyer wrote:
.If you're going to be releasing your CD for sale, you'll want to *insert a copy of your CD* (do not import it, just let it *mount in iTunes*), edit all the information so that it's correct as regards artist name, album name, track names, genre, etc., and then use the Submit Track Names command.

Erm... cough cough

and?
Take a drink of water...

louisegd never mentioned a CD.

No, but Dave Sawyer clearly did in the first reply describing how this feature worked.

and in is response to Dave's, he still did not understand about needing a CD.

but ok...