My playlist burned to CD doesn't include track and artist info.

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.

If you are burning this to an audio format CD then no CD contains that information (except the few unusual ones using CD-text which not all devices support, including iTunes itself although it can make one). When you put an audio CD into a computer, the computer uses characteristics of the CD to get the track information from a central database (Gracenote). If you burn a custom made audio CD, that information isn't in Gracenote.

If this is a mp3 CD, the files themselves hold the track information, but the CD itself will just show whatever the file names happen to be.

None of this has anything to do with which operating system version you use.

How iTunes remembers audio CDs - http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27785

i don't think you guys understand what undie is saying. i think i get it because I'm having the same issue. basically what i want the outcome to be, is a burned cd that can go in any cd player (my mac, a friend's car stereo, my mom's Dell, whatever...) and have the cd text be there. meaning, the artist, song title, and album name. as undie stated, his friend has given him burned cds and when undie plays them, the cd text is there. of course his computer wouldn't have the cd information because it wasn't burned on his computer it was given to him and yet, there it is. So the question is, what is the friend doing that undie is not in order to get the cd text on there using any player???

i am trying to burn a master cd of an album i made to have it replicated but i've tried toast and i-tunes checking the boxes to include the cd text yet when i test it out on my mom's dell computer, no cd text is showing up, just track 1 and the time duration of the song. getting frustrated.....

Mod_Meg wrote:

i don't think you guys understand what undie is saying.

I understand exactly what he is saying.

So the question is, what is the friend doing that undie is not in order to get the cd text on there using any player???

Nothing since "any player" does not necessarily read CD-TEXT info. iTunes will not read it.

My iMac is having the same problem. My computer at work will allow me to make an audio CD and have the CD text on it. When I put it in my car, the text comes up. My computer at work is a mac mini. When I try and run the same thing at home, I cannot select the include audio text when I burn the audio CD. There are two boxes you can check check on under Audio CD, the first is use sound check, the second is Include CD Text. I cannot check the Text one, it is faded out.

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.

did that, but still fubar:-( this may be the tipping point to linux:-P