Jinx wrote:
>> You're out of luck.
>>     
>
> Thanks Rolf. So, apart from my own information purposes there's
> no point giving a CD compilation track a name then. I thought it
> might have been like FDD or HDD volume contents, only hidden
>
> I have another way of making a best guess at what they are but it's
> not as easy as reading them in a directory. Not as easy at all. Sigh
>
>   
Well, that's not quite true. Giving a track a name, etc, is very useful 
if you store the music in a Data CD format, rather than Audio CD. Take a 
collection of MP3's, because the track is stored as a file it is 
possible to store all sorts of data with the song.

It is possible to "rip" your CD music, and using the CDDB or FreeDB or 
some other CD database you can add a heap of data to each track. Then 
burning your "mix" to a new CD in a data format, you can then keep all 
the info there. Most modern (OK, some modern) CD players (even car 
players) can play these disks, and will display the track title, etc. in 
the display.

Note that while MP3 format is a "lossy" format (the sound quality is not 
as good after encoding as before - although the difference in quality is 
theoretically imperceptible to most people), you do not need to use MP3 
to do the above process. Using various formats other than MO3 will work, 
and will be just as good as the CD audio (AAC, and FLAAC formats come to 
mind...).

The big benefit of MP3 is the compression, about 10 to 1, so you can get 
about 10 normal audio CD's content in to 1 MP3 CD (depending on your 
compression/quality levels).

So, if you have a compatible player, you can always rip your tracks 
without compression (and ID them from the internet while ripping), then, 
when you mix them back to a CD, just don't use an audio format CD.

Rolf
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