Ok. When I burn an album off iTunes or whatever, most of the time, I burn the track titles with it. So I know what song is what.

Well the other day, I forgot to turn that setting on and burned 2 cds without track titles.

When I flashed over to the "entertainment" screen, it showed Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor track listings for each of the tracks, as displayed in my attachment to this thread. That isn't the album I was listening to :-/

I'm not generalising that everyone will have that album in their car or their procession.

The point of this thread is to see how many CDs that don't have track titles burned with them, keep the information from the last cd played.

Thoughts?

 

One thought I have is that maybe when you burned that disc, it had the info from the previous disc you burned (Madonna). Or that the CD player just got a little goofy. Have you tried ejecting, putting another in, seeing if that is correct then putting the suspect disc back in? That would at least help determine if it is a disc related issue or a disc player issue.

Best O Luck!

 

nah. I burned it using a playlist in iTunes. Other track names that I burn show up fine.

But when I burned that particular cd, I forgot to check the box in iTunes: write cd text or w/e it is... hence it showing madonna. It's not madonna. It's a breaking benjamin mix album. The other one that I forgot to check that box is a mix of adult contemporary music

It's strange

I bought a cd at the store, to test it, (first cd I've paid for in 4 years), it shows Madonna listings ... that was the Alicia Keys album... Strange

 

That is strange. I've never played a CD with track titles in my Mini and, consequently have no track titles displayed. I think I'll name some of my own (original) music with some cool names like "MINIs are for Lovers" or "Please Don't Touch the Buttons" or something like that, so that title will stick with all of my CDs. I'm kinda liking that feature.

Either that or it could be broken, in which case we need to start a class action suit

 

store bought CDs "usually" have no tags/track info on the disc. That's why when you rip them to mp3 format, track info is downloaded from the internet.

 

The feature you're thinking of is CD-Text. It is a wonderful feature that unfortunately still to this day is not supported by vary many CD players nor original store-bought CDs...

Which is really stupid, as it is so simple to implement this feature, at next to no cost. It is beyond me why all record companies didn't add this to every single CD release since the CD-Text specification was created in 1996. Another example of the record industry being pig-headed. Here's the official logo for regular CDs and for CD-Text... you can see it is really designed to be a simple standards improvement right down to near-identical logos!

 

Are we talking about mp3 CDs here? When I just burn a CD playlist using iTunes (WAVE, not mp3) there's no option to include the titles/whatever. The mp3 CDs have the info though, but the tracks display play in alpha order, not album order, which is a bummer but I think that's the Mini's problem.

 

I don't know about WAVE files (never touch the stuff) but you can put mp3 files in any order you want for an mp3 CD.

Sort your playlist on the very left column. Then drag the tracks into the order you want them. Burn the CD while the playlist is sorted this way. That is how they will play in the MINI.

 

When I open a playlist in iTunes from the sourcelist (the left column) the tracks come up in the middle screen area. I don't think I can sort them from the sourcelist, I can just see the names of the playlists. (WAVE files are just the uncompressed ones that are on store bought CDs).

 

AHMEN to that!! I've wondered why brand new CD's made today, don't have CD Text on them. Just rediculous. Forget the problem in cars, how about when you have a Sony 400 CD changer at home. No CD-Text means you have to type in every single CD title ....

 

I'm fairly certain that commercial CDs have AIFF files.

 

is that supposed to happen? if i turn off the car and come back to it later the last track has started again from the beginning.

 

WAV and AIFF are so close to being the same thing that it doesn't really matter.

Macs tend to work in AIFF files for uncompressed audio, and Windows PCs tend to work in WAV. Both are the same raw audio data (i.e. PCM) with minor differences in the header & footer of the file.

Technically speaking, CDs contain neither, as the Red Book Audio defines tracks and how they are stored. They aren't in files... but computers (as opposed to regular CD players) will allow you to extract the tracks as data files... either WAV or AIFF, accordingly.

Take a look at the Red Book specs - notice there's no mention of AIFF nor WAV.