ID3 tag - MP3 to WAV for car stereo playback

As track names ar not part of CDDA definitions there is no way to do so when burning AudioCDs through iTunes.
Your car player may support CD-Text (take a look at the manual) - but CD-Text is only support by 3rd party applications like Toast.

When choosing the "Audio" tab in Toast there will be a checkbox "CD-Text" on left side (Options).
Tick it - The track names you assign in Toast as well as the Disk name will be used for CD-TEXT.

That's all.

merry xmas

What about burning MP3 discs with Artist and Album data for use in a factory MP3 car stereo ? My stereo reads both MP3 discs burned in iTunes and Data CD's (MP3's) burned in iTunes and will properly display track names but not artist or album. In what is called Folder Mode, I can skip easily to the next album (10 albums of MP3's on the disc) but the album data (name) is not displayed. Any ideas ? I tried MP3 disc burning in Toast 7 and get the same effect as iTunes Data CD's. (The MP3 disc option in iTunes creates one folder with all 60 some odd songs which doesn't allow for Folder Mode which is pretty important I think).

Where is the car stereo looking for album and artist data if not as the folder name (which I have) ?

Thanks,

Ed

Powerbook 1.5GHz 15 & Dual 2.3 G5 desktop Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I guess the question is what information does the ID tag show? My car player manual says only the song name will appear.

Using toast (I haven't got an iTunes mp3 disks to work in my car player) it seem that toast uses the file name as the ID tag. One song showed up as Dive on iTunes, when I imported it to toast it showed up as 01 Dive.mp3, that actual file name, and the "01 Dive" showed in the text window of the car player.

So if you wanted to have all the information you would like ONE way to do it is to copy the artist and album data and add it to the name in toast, probably in front of the .mp3 suffix. Then it should show you the name, artist and album.