Will hardware player really see CD-TEXT?

[Gyvab]

I created a cue first time for an audio cd. I sat default cd text disc on custom and entered title and performed on the Disc-level. The cd text track were sat to tag.

 

Now now only windows media player but media player classic does not show anything at all. Even the filenames are wiped clean from any mentioning of the title.

 

The original files were showing interpreter and title already. In both players as well as in explorer. So they all were looking for databases for that? Sounds pretty revealing if you have to contact a database in the net probably for every file you play. Anonymity?

 

So will it work even without me seeing it?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

There's a plugin to let windows media player read cdtext.

 

Yes, they look up the details in a database.

 

Hardware devices that support cdtext will show it if it's encoded on the disc. If it isn't or they don't, they won't.

[Gyvab]

I now installed this wmpcd extension and when i started wmp then i was prompted with its settings. But still no title or interpreter though the cue file contains my settings for title and performer in the first lines. Probable cd level. But then there are only filenames, no tagged ones. Did i create my cue wrongly with the settings i mentioned?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Go into read mode and click on the button that shows the media info.

 

ImgBurn will show you the cdtext info if it's on the disc.

[Gyvab]

Hm, it does not show any info i provided at all after reading the CD. I followed the tutorial for creating a cue file on the forum. And i used the settings i mentioned in the first post. What went wrong then since i chose burn an image and loaded the cue file to burn the cd. Is that the wrong way?

[Gyvab]

The cue-file itself contains such things:

TITLE "My given cd-title"
PERFORMER "my given performer"
FILE "real file name" MP3
REM FILE-DECODED-SIZE 01:49:64
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

So it seems it went wrong on several levels.

[Gyvab]

It worked now. Maybe i changed session to none and after that sat the default for tracks but were overwritten by the session setting?

 

Now mpc shows interprete and title, don't know how to show the cd title and wmp shows the cd title too. I wonder how i can access the wmpcd settings now and how i can disable wmp as the default cd player.

 

Anyway, it worked for a clean audio cd now. The files are all in the main directory. I wonder what a cd music player would do with video files in this list. Simply skipping? And a cd player for television? Showing no screen for mp3 but playing the songs?

[Gyvab]

Hm, try to create the third cue but i can only add a single file. When i try to add a second one then the cue creator crashes.

 

And i already have the newest version 2.5.8.0 Portable.

[Gyvab]

I now tried several software, CUE-Master, which creates one big mp3 file which doesn't exist, Easy Cue Editor, which is useless as Cue Sheet Generator... they only need an iso to create a cue out of it.

 

An online site can't load the files in automatically...

 

Don't know what to do since the last 2 CDs i have are now not able to get a cue file.

[Gyvab]

I sent a bug report, i checked a lot of online and software converters but no software does what imgburn does. And i search for the error message but no matching result. The filter are all unknown too.

 

I have to give up for now.

Edited February 1, 2016 by Gyvab

[Gyvab]

Can a cue work correctly without knowing index 01 time? Then i could create the cue's with a calc sheet. Though the songs should be played one after another too.