Entering CDDB info for untitled tracks

Yes - just click in the field labels (Title) for track names, then select all tracks and Get Info to input the Artist & Album name. That will all be remembered by your computer.

If you want other users to access this data then, while online, click Advanced / Submit Track Names to upload them to the Gracenote Database.

Just to clarify:

Be aware that entering the title and track information does not "encode" that information +on the CD+. Many people believe that it is possible to encode the title and track information, artist, etc. on an audio CD, or wish it were possible, but it's not. Data CDs or MP3s - yes - but the specifications for standard audio CDs do not make any provision to store this kind of data on the CD.

When you enter the artist and track information for a CD in iTunes, that data is kept in a file on your computer, and when you reinsert that CD later, your computer recognizes the CD and supplies the data in iTunes. If the same CD is inserted into another computer that has never seen the disk before, the tracks will show as track1, track2, etc. This is not a limitation of iTunes, and there is no 3rd party solution - that's just the way it is, as described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27785?viewlocale=en_US

If you follow the advice of christopher rig, then the data will be uploaded to the CDDB website and others who insert the CD - or an exact copy of it - in their computers can see the data if they are running software that can access that database (like iTunes).

As I understand it, the CDDB matches the data to the CD when the CD has the correct number of tracks of exactly the correct length, so if you edit the CD, you'll need to upload the data again.

-gw

Sending the track names will be useful to others only if the exact copy of the disc is released to the public.

And, who knows, they may have database managers who'll delete homemade discs to prevent clogging the database with useless data. That database must have terabytes in it.

they may have database managers who'll delete homemade discs

Unlikely - there is no way to tell a homemade disc from a commercial one just from track names. The point about clogged databases is quite valid though; what would be more useful is if they would remove duplicate listings from Gracenote.

Umm... I don't think Linux Grip going to help. On any other software, either.

If I understand the situation correctly, you want to burn an AUDIO CD that can be played in any CD player, including car and home stereo players, right?

And you want anyone who gets one of your demo CDs to be able to put it into a computer and see the title tracks, artist, etc, right?

I'm no expert, so I'm not 100% positive, but I believe the problem that is going to prevent you from doing that is this: The specifications for Standard audio CDs does not have any mechanism to encode that information on the CD - not allowed - no can do. It's got nothing to do with what hardware or software you use to make the audio CD, but rather with the accepted definition of "audio CD" (as described by the "Red Book" specifications). As far as I know, there are only two ways to get around this limitation of audio CDs:

1. Burn a non-standard CD. If you burn the music on a DATA CD (CD-ROM) or MP3 CD, then computer users can easily see your track titles/artist/etc; however there will be many home stereo and car stereo CD players that will not be able to play the music at all.

2. Upload the information to an online data base like Gracenote CDDB so internet connected computers can retrieve the track titles, artist, etc.

There is also something called CD Text which does encode some track title/artist information on the disc, but I believe that info is displayed only by certain hardware - usually car CD players and DVD players, but not computers. I don't know if you can add CD Text to home-burned CDs, but services which make commercial discs can do this for you.