![]() ![]() I know if I don't understand it, my client surely doesn't. From what I'm seeing, I think they mean that they have some online form for the metadata, and that it's not a part of the audio files at all. Now that I'm looking at their materials, it's kind of vague how they want that delivered. This project will be going to CD Baby, and their instructions are just for 44.1K/16bit individual audio files. I just checked one of those, and indeed it just says track 1, track 2. I think the last person to whom I delivered physical CDs was back in 2014. I didn't do any music for a year (my "sabbatical"), and only digital delivery stuff for a year or so before that. I DO have it installed, but can't remember if I have made any CDs from it since the last upgrade. It's been a while since I actually delivered CDs to anyone. My tracks just say Track 1, Track 2, etc. Before DSP Quattro I was using WaveBurner same deal. Kwiz, are you burning the CDs directly from DSP Quattro? That's how I have always done it, but I don't think I ever got song titles out of it. Shooshie - a lot of this is really old info so take it for what it's worth. I still do the audio but we haven't duplicated CD's for 5 or 6 years now, so I'm not sure where that stands at present. I ended up going round and round with GN to expunge those from their database but they wouldn't budge. At the time we were duplicating the CD's as well so the blame was pointed at us. So people would stick the CD in and get wrong titles. The seminar clients I have worked with for many years had a major issue with Gracenote in that these seminar CD's did not get along with Gracenote's database (probably because the intro's were the same length and maybe other factors). I have never directly submitted to Gracenote, but for example my band's CD, which is on route from Diskmakers will be in that database as Dismakers submits that as part of their service. Commercial CD's are submitted to them with track info and they use some sort of secret algorithm which people believed was based on the song lengths to identify specifically what CD it is, then iTunes (for example) looks out to Gracenote and GN feeds back the song titles and maybe more info, not sure. Here's the other thing - there's an entity called Gracenote formerly CDDB (CD DataBase). The other thing was some CD players read the song titles and some don't. So for absolute compatibility I went with Red Book standards. Way back when I researched such things the way I understood it was that if CD text was implemented then the CD no longer adhered to the Red Book standard and it was actually some offshoot format that was related to Karaoke. My info is sketchy, so keep that in mind. ![]()
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