MrDBM

whilst the 'text encoded' cd feature is very cool and well impressive, there aren't a great deal of CD's around that are encoded. In fact, just three from my collection are; Evanescence, SOAD and something else that I can't remember!

Is there any way that you can get the text to appear via home made (PC) CD's??? I had hoped that the track names etc from Windows Media Player would be carried over, but no such luck!

Anybody got any suggestions?

chiark

Yes, use something like nero and enable cd-text

atche

Yeah, I use NERO to make CD compilations, and I get CD text on My Alpine IVX-C806. I cant get it to give album title though. Having said that,I may be doing something wrong as I haven't studied nero software in depth.

JockyTT

My Pioneer displays the track names of MP3's and WMA's from Windows Media Player, but you ned to ensure you are ripping them correctly in the first place with the ID3 tags in place.

I'm surprised that your text display isn't working. What format are you ripping to - WMA or MP3?

Does the instructions for the headunit tell you what format tags it will recognise?

JockyTT

....or are we talking about just plain CD Audio files as opposed to compressed files?

chiark

We're talking about audio CDs, not MP3 or WMA...

JockyTT

Ah right - I thought so after reading it through again!

MrDBM

at the risk of sounding like a complete amateur what's 'nero'? I presume it's a bit like Windows media player?

MrDBM

JockyTT - you are confusing the hell out of me

chiark

Nero is a bit of software that allows you to write CDs. It comes with quite a few CD writers.