After CD Burn, names of tunes not on CD??

It sounds like iTunes has had trouble caching the profile of that CD. You can try using the menu: Advanced > Get CD Track Names, but I doubt that will help with a custom-made CD.

Just so you know, the track information, such as Artist name, etc. are not stored on Audio CDs.. just the audio is. iTunes needs to store a local profile of that CD that is recalled when you insert that CD again. If that profile can't be found, iTunes has no idea what the track names are.

Can you reproduce this problem, or does it just happen with that one CD? You can try entering the track information manually and see if that fixes the problem.

Does that help?

Audio CDs don't have any "tag" data. Like the other poster pointed out, unless the disc you burned is recognized by Gracenote as a complete album, no information will be displayed.

iTunes doesn't support reading or writing CD-TEXT like many other players and burning applications, so there is no way to use iTunes to make any audio CD that would carry over any metadata to another computer, etc.

CD-TEXT is an extension of the Red Book standard. An audio CD containing CD-TEXT still conforms to that standard.

I see the point you're trying to make and I understand it. This is just an additional feature that's supported in most other Windows (and even some Mac) CD authoring programs, and it would make a whole lot of people happy if iTunes supported it as well. Lack of CD-TEXT support in iTunes results in an absolutely huge number of new threads here on Apple Discussions.

My question - previous versions of ITunes did display the names and related informaiton after the cd was burned.

I just experienced the same problem, but went back to burned cd's from last year and all the same information that was in my playlist displays with the old burned CD's

What has changed with the latest version??

IBM T-42 Windows XP Pro

It put the song names because it knew what they were from your computer.

If you burn a CD and it is not the same songs as the original it was imported from, when you insert it into someone elses computer, it will not display names.

CDDB looks up the titles based on number of songs, length and a checksum.
If these are different, it won't know what it is.

Chris - thanks

Please me try to clarify my question.

Previously (six months ago) when I burned a CD, within Itunes, from a playlist, and then re-inserted that same CD, playing with ITunes back to the same computer, all the name/title informaiton showed back up, within Itunes for that CD (even if without having access to the internet (i.e., no access to CDDB)

Today - when I did the same this morning - all I see/get is the track no. with none of the information that is there prior to burning

Hope this clarifies

Thanks for the help - Ron

Chris (and others)

Based your pointing me to my iTunes CD info.cdb file the following is if interest:

1. cidb file seems to be OK - 802KB in length.
2. Just using text reader found an entry in the cidb file for a song in my playlist (i.e., search for unique artist)
3. Moved the entire cidb file to a temporary location - now have no cidb file in the Application Data loction.
3. Disconnected from internet (i.e. no on-line access)
4. Cut selected song to a CD - the playlist showed all the relevant information. During the entire process no new cidb file was created or written
5. Reloaded the just burned CD - "Track 1" information displayed - no new cidb file yet
6. Then edited the Track 1 information, within iTunes, and a new cidb file was created with just that entry.

My conclusion - At the time the cd is being burned, and as part of the entire process, nothing is written to the cidb file, and therfore, when one puts the cd back in the drive, and iTunes reads same, there is no information in cidb to look for - if I had an earlier version (not the current 6.0.5.20) I would suspect, based upon have previously seen all the track information, that the application was writting the track information to the cidb file as part of the burn process - but not any more

Make sense - or where am I off base??

Thanks

Ron

iTunes for Windows isn't a product with a lot of history behind it, and it's never even behaved in the way you desire on the Macintosh platform. It doesn't read CD-TEXT and never has. If you want to keep testing just out of curiosity, there are old versions of iTunes floating around various download sites...

Ron, I feel like even when I was without comp access, and had CDS that I had burned from itunes, that they still came up as track 1, etc... unless I was connected to the web...I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what I remember (and that was probably about a year and a half ago that I was without net access whichever version of itunes that was)

Has the computer been restored?
If you dumped the cddb info, it could be the problem.

(Correction)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93952

I have same problem on ALL CDs i make with itunes. Real PITA. Any ideas or alternates are appreciated.

This really dissapoints me, if anyone from Apple reads the forums... Make Note! Fix this...

An Audio CD is a standard format.
Apple cannot do anything to "fix" it.

The redbook CD audio standard would have to be updated and then everyone would have to use it.

Chris,

No, but thanks for pointing me in the direction I should go.

I appreciate the help and assistance

Ron