Waveburner CD TEXT Burning! YES or NO?

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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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Answer 1

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

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Answer 2

micdim Author

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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.

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Answer 3

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

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micdim Author

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

Thanks for the info Brad!

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Answer 5

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

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