When I burn a playlist to a CD, the disc doesn't list track titles and artists. When I've searched the community I find posts that show how to change burning preferences, but these posts were from a couple of years ago. It appears that Lion doesn't give us the options for burning that Snow Leopard did. Are there settings that I can change to fix this problem, or is this another example of Apple becoming less user friendly.
> used to always include the CD text, now the option is grayed out.
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> itunes 10.5.3 (My version at least) appears to have broken this feature.
i've got the same problem, but with v10.6.1, 10may12 moddate...any ideas how/why it's greyed out?
Been trying to figure this out for 3 hours..no one with any solutions just alot of chit chat...I finally just deleted my ITUNES APP, downloaded it again and VIOLA works like a charm
did that, but still fubar:-( this may be the tipping point to linux:-P
I'm still having the exact same problem. I burn the cd, take it to another cpu or my car and none of the info is there...but in the past when I've done this exact same process of making a mix cd all info and order come through including cd name. So annoying! 😠 It's an AUDIO CD to be played in my car stereo which in the past sees all the names and such.
I appear to be having the same problems as Bbulmer and Meg and the original poster. I burn a CD from a playlist with "CD text included" and it will read in my car stereo. But my entire catalog of playlists disappeared from iTunes several months ago. I'm trying to reload CD mixes I made in iTunes with "CD text included" onto the same computer and version of iTunes that made those CD mixes.
Should I download version 10.6.1 to get my computer and iTunes to read their own CD?
Why doesn't iTunes read "CD text"? My car stereo does. When I burn a CD on my PC, my laptop reads it. But when I burn a CD on my laptop, my PC won't read it but the car stereo does. This sort of inconsistency bugs me.
By the way, about two hours ago, I inserted one of these mix CDs into the laptop that created it and got "Track 1, Track 2, etc." with track times as the identifying information for each "song." I decided not to import the CD that way. After searching for a solution, I gave up and inserted the same CD into the laptop and iTunes tells me it's a blank CD. It's not. I've played this CD many times. Why can't it even read just the "Track 1, Track 2, etc." information now? What makes it think the CD is blank when it didn't two hours ago? Again, inconsistency bothers me.
Any answers would be much appreciated. I have a lot of playlists to reconstruct because iTunes dumped all of them on me. This just makes it that much harder and time consuming.
Thanks.
I have found this fantastic script that will answer all your problems!
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=cdtexttocdinfo
progged wrote:
I have found this fantastic script that will answer all your problems!
Three years later it doesn’t answer the (non) problem.
Track and artist info is not included on audio CDs, except for CD-TEXT (which iTunes does not write).
The script you link to does not write CD-TEXT to the audio CD.
It reads the CD-TEXT info (if it is on the audio CD) and writes it to the CD info database/iTunes.
Chris CA wrote:
... except for CD-TEXT ( which iTunes does not write).
??
Admittedly I use an older iTunes version but on mine in Preferences> Advanced > Burning there is a check mark to create CD-text. I thought the case was iTunes will write CD-text to a disc but will not read it from a disc with CD text. That is what the Dougscript does.
DOH!
You are correct. iTunes writes but does not read CD-TEXT.
Since iTunes does not read CD-TEXT, this script will read the CD-TEXT and write it to the CD info in iTunes.
My playlist burned to CD doesn't include track and artist info.
