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SuperChop
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_ 		20. March 2003 @ 19:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I want to try to burn cds in such a way that Windows Media Player displays the title, track name, album etc. I've tried many ways all to no avail. I've found something that I thought would work, which was to create a cue file. After messing up two cds from programs not wanting to burn anything, such as NERO and CDRWIN, I resorted to BlindWrite. Blindwrite seemed to do what it was ment too, it burned the cd fine and didn't complain about the cue file at all.

After that, I decided to insert the cd to see if all the trouble was worth it. The cd seemed to have done what I wanted it to do, to display album info, but instead all it showed was either "?" marks or squares for the titles/info. IF I'd try to right click for properties, it would display the same thing but with added information that to me wasn't anywhere in the cue file nor the mp3 file itself.

So, the cd works fine, but no content is displayed, just squares or question marks. If it was just a cd that was complied normaly from nero or roxio with no indexing, media player would just say the default "unknown artist" "track**". Blindwrite seemed to go just a bit fourth to do what I wanted, but didn't.

Was there something I did wrong, was the cue file altered in some way from where I d/led it from?

So, does any one know how to do this. Simply put, All i want to do is burn a custom/album cd, and when inserted with media player, media player recognizes the cd such as it would an official store bought cd, by displaying the album info etc. What do I need to do, what programs should be used?

Thanks
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SadJoker
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_ 		27. March 2003 @ 07:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Doesnt WMP9 check the CD using Freedb anyway? Ive burnt countless CDs and WMP9 hasnt had any problems finding the album , trackname etc except on those rare occassions Ive mixed up tracks from various albums then WMP9 gets confused.

Did you try enabling CD Text by any chance? Not that it does much good other for some steroes showing a trackname instead of just the number. Give enabling CD Text a try. Also when you are ripping the CD, I think you have to set the output files be it MP3, wma/wav to include the album info. Mp3's stash the info in the IDtag
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