CD Text for self generated Audio CD's

[James Gray]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:53 am, Senectus . wrote:
> I recently bought a Toyota Prius and one of the neat function this
> awesome car has is the ability to display the CD text from the CD on
> the display.
> Now only a few of my CD's have cd text on them.. I was wondering if
> anyone knew if it was possible to add your own CD text to an audio cd
> that is created in k3b or similar?

Yes! :)  In a round-about kinda way.  You can't "edit" a CD once it's been 
finalised and definitely can't "edit" stamped CD's (like commercial CD's 
from EMI/Sony/BMG/etc).  But you can achieve what you want if you're 
willing to burn a CD of your own.

What I normally do with my CD's (after purchasing them) is to rip 
the CD using KAudioCreator to OGG format (VBR 160-256Kbps @ 44.1KHz) and 
make sure all the ID tag info is added.  Then, simply add the tracks (as  
audio tracks, NOT OGG *files*) in K3B.  Make sure the ID info is included 
as CD-Text and voila!

This approach serves a few ends:
1. I can use my ripped tracks in my iRiver portable music player.
2. I have CD Text in my car and on my lounge-room CD player.
3. I dont have to carry the original CD's around in the car.  If the car is
   stolen or broken into, the thieves just get the $0.10 CDR's :)

For a screen shot of what I mean - go here:
http://files.grayonline.id.au/k3b-cdtext-shot.png

BTW, the scren shot was done by simply starting K3B, browsing to the 
directory with the OGG's (or MP3's, or...), then selecting all the tracks 
and dragging them onto the lower part of the screen.  Simple huh?

HTH.

James
-- 
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
		-- Beckett
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