Not as a direct help, but maybe loosely related, there is a CDText  
format that never really seemed to catch on that some CD players  
could read (I had a pretty high-end Kenwood car head unit from a few  
years back that could, for example - I also think that many computers  
read it) that can embed disc/track info into the disc.  As far as I  
recall (I haven't burned many CD's since I moved to NY and migrated  
from a car to the subway, and hence my car stereo to an iPod) most  
burning software, Nero included, supports burning CDs with the data  
embedded.

I was always amazed that of all the commercial CDs I owned, only a  
tiny handful (maybe 3 or 4) actually included the data.  Maybe it's  
more prevalent these days.

-n.



On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Tony Smith wrote:

>> I burned a few tracks to a CD as a compilation but
>> regretfully forgot to make a note of titles and artists
>>
>> So all I get in the CD directory now is Track01.cda to
>> Track07.cda, which isn't very helpful. These are all
>> similar-sounding solo piano pieces that I can't identify from memory
>>
>> I always put the compilation in a folder with names
>>
>> 01 Artist - Title, Duration.wav
>> 02 Artist - Title, Duration.wav
>> etc
>>
>> do a screen capture, edit, save as a .gif and then burn with Nero
>>
>> I've used several ways to read the track in but none of them
>> include the original filename. Did the filename ever make it
>> to the CD ? Is there a utility or whatnot to make it readable
>> if it did ?
>>
>> TIA
>
>
> Unlike MP3, .wav usually doesn't include song information.
>
> CDDB.com & FreeDB.org are no use to use as they need the entire  
> original
> album in order to figure out what it is.  They create a checksum of  
> the song
> lengths, and use that to determine the album.
>
> There's a website called MusicBrainz, (www.musicbrainz.org) that can
> identify individual songs.  You needs to download one of their  
> programs, I
> use the 'Classic Tagger' since I couldn't get the 'Picard' one to  
> download a
> while back.  You'll also need to set up an account (no big deal).
>
> Anyhow, run the program, drop the files into it, and wait.  It take  
> about 15
> seconds per song.  In the case of the tagger I was using, it then  
> either
> moves the file to the Identified section, where you can then give  
> the Ok for
> it to rename them; or they end up in the Unknown section.
>
> Sometime you get multiple matches for a song, and will need to pick  
> one.
> Failing that there's a lookup function to manually find the song.
>
> When ripping I use CDEX v1.51 with freedb.org as the database.   
> CDEx v1.7
> has a few bugs, being beta and all.
>
> I also use Tag&Rename to deal with MP3 tags.  It'll deal with  
> individual
> songs or albums, and lets you fix up error or fill in missing  
> data.  It can
> also rename files based on info within the mp3 tag.
>
> Tony
>
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