Posted by Victek on 11/05/07 20:33

>> I recently burned an MP3 album downloaded from Amazon.com and when
>> I play it on my car stereo I'm only seeing track names. The album
>> and artist information is "unknown". I checked the MP3 tags (ID3v1
>> and ID3v2) and all the fields are filled out and correct. Why
>> doesn't this information display properly on playback? I have
>> other CD's where album and artist information display so I know it
>> can work.
>
> Did you burn them as audio or data? If audio they are no longer MP3s
> and consequently have no tags.
>
> If as data then your CD player is capable of decoding them but isn't
> showing you the tags. Best suggestion I can make is to check its
> manual to see how to enable them.
>

Good point. I burned it as an Audio CD so of course the tag info is gone.
However, some kind of information is carried over as I am getting track
titles. Do you know how that works? It's not CDDB lookup since I don't
have internet in the car. If track title data can be written to an audio CD
then presumably so can album and artist name info. Is this a function of
the software I burn the CD with?

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