Problem playing CD's

[Speed of Light]

I wonder if anyone can help (?)

I have WIndows XP.
Some time ago, I put some music onto CD's from MP3 files which I keep in 'My Music'.

Now, when I play the CD's using Windows Media Player, it doesn't show the details -Artist etc for each track - Instead, it just gives the track number, and says that it is an unknown artist.

The funny thing is that it used ti work alright with Windows Media Player - It used to give all of the infomatoon for each track, but now it has changed, and it doesn't.

The only reason I can think of, is that I had to reinstall Windows and reinstall everything, and in the past, I didn't update Windows Media Player, as it always went funny every time I tried to update it.

But now, I presume that I have a newer version, and it doen't show the track info.

I wonder if anyone knows the reason for this, or has any solution (??)

 

[bobhope2112]

When you burn a mix disc from MP3s, the system already has information about the titles and artists so it writes them into your local database. It can recognize that burnt disc, and looks it up locally. If you just put in a random burnt disc, it has to try to look up the information off of the internet which, of course, does not know about every mix disc ever made.

 

[Speed of Light]

When you burn a mix disc from MP3s, the system already has information about the titles and artists so it writes them into your local database. It can recognize that burnt disc, and looks it up locally. If you just put in a random burnt disc, it has to try to look up the information off of the internet which, of course, does not know about every mix disc ever made.

Thanks for replying -
That's annoying!

 

[elgarak]

CDs do have the ability to store extra information (like Artist, track names, composer etc.) with the so-called CD-Text extension of the Red Book CD standard. The problem was that this extension never get widespread use, from what I experienced. Only a few commercial CDs did use it, and very few people burning CDs payed attention to burn this information.

Wiki has a an entry about it with a list of programs that can burn those information, so that you are not dependent on a database for this info (for all future CDs you burn).