Writing track names to a CD

Bruce-Phillips wrote on 7/29/2020, 6:51 PM

I'm using Sound Forge Audion Cleaning Lab 2. It's on a 64 bit Windows 10 system. I've spent several days importing vinyl records of an Opera, cleaning them and using track markers to identify Acts, Scenes, and favored selections. Each track is labeled. I'd like to create music CDs that include the names of those tracks and not some vague reference to track 1, etc. The intent is to import the "playlist" consisting of those track names into a labeling program and/or just have them displayed on the player. So, how do I do it?

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emmrecs wrote on 7/30/2020, 4:30 AM

@Bruce-Phillips

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.

What you are seeking is a facility called "CD Text", which SFACL 2 cannot create. To add this text to your CDs you will need specialist software, e.g. the one I use is "Hofa CD Burn, DPP Master".

But, before you decide to purchase this or any similar software, make sure you read this Wiki page, especially the section headed "Storage" which includes this very important statement:

The CD-Text information is stored in the subchannels R to W on the disc. This information is usually stored in the subchannels in the lead-in area of the disc, where there is roughly five kilobytes of space available. It can also be stored on the main program area of the disc (where the audio tracks are), which can store about 31 megabytes.[1] Since the R to W channels are not used in the Red Book specification of audio CDs, they are not read by all CD players, which prevents some devices from reading CD-Text information.[1]

I have deliberately highlighted the key words to note!

HTH

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Bruce-Phillips wrote on 7/30/2020, 9:31 AM

Thank you for the response. I had hoped it would be a simple solution - a check this box in that menu sort of thing, or maybe burn as ... Oh well. But thanks again for the help.

rraud wrote on 7/30/2020, 10:17 AM

In the rare occurrence of needing to burn an audio CD, I use the stand alone CD Architect which used to be included with Sound Forge Pro and prior to that, was an optional purchase.

FYI, SF Pro 11 and subsequent versions supported "Red Book' compliant Disc-at-once (DAO) audio CD burning which is a prerequisite for CD text metadata. Prior to Pro 11, SF only supported Track-at-once (TAO) which could not embed the CD text metadata. It added two seconds of silence between tracks as well, which was not good for continuous concert recordings and such. 'Some' CD players will not play TAO discs at all.

I have not used SF AS or SFACL much. Fortunately @emmrecs has that covered.