Encoding track listing and album artwork to a wav/aiff file

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dupedd Author

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Encoding track listing and album artwork to a wav/aiff file

How can I do this to where I can burn to a cd and keep all of this information with the tracks?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 7, 2010 1:18 PM

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Chris CA

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Mar 7, 2010 2:29 PM in response to dupedd

Do you want to burn an audio CD?
You cannot keep artwork and other info on an audio CD.

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dupedd Author

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Mar 7, 2010 4:27 PM in response to Chris CA

Well yes, I suppose it would be an audio cd that I want to burn. It is the songs, track info, album art that I want on the cd. If you cannot keep artwork on an 'audio cd' how do others do it? When you import a cd into your itunes the track listing and artwork usually come with it... Can you not do this if the songs are certain types of files or something(wav, aiff)?

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Chris CA

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Mar 7, 2010 5:16 PM in response to dupedd

If you cannot keep artwork on an 'audio cd' how do others do it?

They don't.

When you import a cd into your itunes the track listing and artwork usually come with it.

iTunes finds the artwork and the data and they are stored and linked in iTunes. The info is not on the audio CD.

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dupedd Author

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Mar 7, 2010 5:38 PM in response to Chris CA

thanks for the help...

I see, so unless your music is on itunes already they cannot 'find' the artwork to match the audio cd you are importing?

Can't other track information be stored? For instance in Logic Express 7 I can bounce down as an mp3 and write ID3 tags for the song as well(track name, band name, album name, genre)..Cannot do this for AIFF/WAV files. Somehow I did this with an album my band made a while ago... the cd is AIFF files and when the disc is loaded for import the track info(minus the artwork) is displayed. I DO NOT remember how I did this. How do you store this info on a cd with AIFF/WAV files?

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ed2345

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Mar 7, 2010 5:43 PM in response to dupedd

AIFF files can include tags and artwork, so if you burn the AIFF files to a CD, the info will be there.

A CD full of AIFFs can be used in a computer, but will not play in a regular CD player.

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Chris CA

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Mar 7, 2010 5:51 PM in response to dupedd

Can't other track information be stored?

Not really. You can burn the audio CD with CD-TEXT which has Album, Artist, and song title but iTunes does not read that and not all players do.

For instance in Logic Express 7 I can bounce down as an mp3 and write ID3 tags for the song as well(track name, band name, album name, genre)..Cannot do this for AIFF/WAV files.

Yes but an audio CD is not the same as WAV/AIFF. (FYI: WAV files do not have tags either).

Somehow I did this with an album my band made a while ago... the cd is AIFF files and when the disc is loaded for import the track info(minus the artwork) is displayed.

How do you store this info on a cd with AIFF/WAV files?

You can burn AIFF files to the disc as a data CD/DVD and all the info will be there but it will not be the same as a regular audio CD.

the cd is AIFF files

No, audio CDs are straight PCM, not AIFF.
There is a pointer on the CD which is shown as AIFF but they are not really.
They are AIFF when you RIP an audio CD into the computer.

If you burn a data CD/DVD and you have AIFF., MP3, AAC or Apple Lossless, it will include everything in the files. If you paste the artwork into the file in iTunes, the artwork will also be included on the CD.

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dupedd Author

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Mar 7, 2010 7:08 PM in response to Chris CA

Wow, so apparantly I had burned my tracks as an audio-text cd. I just burned as an audio-text right now and when I went to import the burned cd the track info, minus the artwork is shown in itunes. This cd also plays on my dvd player and my disc-man cd player. I also burned my AIFF songs as a data cd and while they can import into itunes with all cd track info intact, artwork included, they do not play on the discman or DVD player.

I guess burning these AIFF files as an audio-text cd is the best way to go to insure that the track info at least stays intact, right? I am concerned that you said, 'itunes does not read burned audio cd with cd-text' ...mine did..?

If I register the songs(album) with itunes will people be able to find the artwork through itunes? Meaning will itunes automatically find the artwork when people import this audio cd?

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Chris CA

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Mar 7, 2010 7:31 PM in response to dupedd

just burned as an audio-text right now and when I went to import the burned cd the track info, minus the artwork is shown in itunes.

If you imported using the same computer you burned with, iTunes will store the data for the burned CD on the computer. When you reinsert that burned CD, iTunes will remember it. If you insert it in ad different computer, it won't.

I am concerned that you said, 'itunes does not read burned audio cd with cd-text' ...mine did..?

iTunes will play the audio, but it will not read the CD-TEXT.

If I register the songs(album) with itunes

How do you "register it"?

will people be able to find the artwork through itunes?

No.

Meaning will itunes automatically find the artwork when people import this audio cd?

Not if it is a custom CD. iTunes will only download artwork for CDs that are in the iTunes database (at Apple) and only commercial CDs are there.

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dupedd Author

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Mar 7, 2010 10:09 PM in response to Chris CA

Ah, got it. We're going to go ahead and sign up for TuneCore and get it on the itunes database. I think we're all set. I wish I'd known that all of this time our track information was not loading with our CDs. Kind of a bummer.
thanks again!

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Chris CA

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Mar 7, 2010 10:27 PM in response to dupedd

Note that the track information is loaded from Gracenote.com.
Artwork is loaded from iTunes Store.

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dupedd Author

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Mar 8, 2010 1:44 AM in response to Chris CA

Just checked out gracenote and properly submitted track info..hopefully.. I guess artwork will load once I have the cd in the itunes store.

thanks again.

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