Burned CD does not show titles

CD Text is a poorly supported extension to the audio CD format. Some car and hi-fi CD players can read and display the text, but most don't. Optical drives in computers rarely pick up this information, so even though iTunes can in principle write out the information it won't read it back.

If you want to transfer the tracks to another computer make a data disc. This may also be compatible with some hi-fi and car systems.

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First, the "Include CD Text" setting only includes information that CD players in some vehicles can display. For standard audio CDs, the track names are not included on the CD per se.

Normally, for an audio CD when you are connected to the internet, the track information is retrieved from the Gracenote media database. The database includes number of tracks, and time of each track. If you changed any of this information (including the sort order) when you burned the CD (or made a "custom" CD) the database lookup will fail and the track names will not be retrieved. For more information, see:

http://www.gracenote.com/music/music-recognition/

iTunes does in theory support burning an audio CD with CD TEXT included.

However iTunes for Windows and Mac cannot read CD TEXT and last I checked Windows Media Player for Windows also could not read CD TEXT. (WMP can also burn CD TEXT.)

As others have mentioned the CD drive itself needs to support reading CD TEXT and if your using a computer so does the program your using. For Windows the programs could be iTunes, WMP, or Windows Explorer i.e. the Windows equivalent to the Finder.

For Windows there is the option of getting a free third-party add-on which in theory allows programs to see the CD TEXT information - presuming your CD drive also supports this, I would expect most modern CD drives do.

See http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/index.htm?http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/morepr ogs/wmpcdtext.htm

Note: On a Mac if you insert a CD with or without CD TEXT as mentioned the iTunes itself cannot read the CD TEXT however iTunes will use Gracenote CD DB to lookup the audio track and find the matching name information. On the Mac this then gets displayed in iTunes and at least in the past also in the Finder. (The Finder is the Mac equivalent to Windows Explorer.)

An audio CD would not be able to store the titles. If you burn an MP3 CD they would.