I tried this with Tapesty by Carole King and it worked great! Thanks. So I got a CD I made yesterday from a cassette tape, Storms of Life by Randy Travis. I put it in the drive and did not get a download if tag information. Is this because the songs are named like '01 - No Place Like Home' that is with a number in front?
From what you are saying here there might be a little confusion about the types of cds that you are trying to "look up". AFAIK, CDDB/YADB will only look up info for audio cds. Since it worked for the Carole King album, I'm assuming that it is a commercially pressed cd. Based on what you are saying about the Randy Travis album it sounds like when you burned the tracks to cd you did not burn it as an audio cd, but as a data cd containing MP3 files. If you had burned it as an audio cd, Windows would list the tracks simply as Track01.cda, Track02.cda, etc.
Where is the Text in a Text CD stored? Is that information related in any way to the ID3 tag information? Can I pull it up and edit it directly?
CD Text and ID3 Tags are two separate things.
CD-Text is a way to embed artist/album/track info on an audio cd (as opposed to a cd with mp3s on it). There are several things required for CD Text to work. The cd player (hardware or software) must support reading CD Text (for example, the majority of hi-fi cd players do not read CD Text, nor does Windows CD Player). To create a cd with CD-Text, your burner and burning software must support writing CD-Text info. Once a cd is burned with CD-Text, the info cannot be edited. Also, a cd that contains CD-Text info will still show up in Windows as Track01.cda, Track02.cda, etc.
When I manually fill in Artist/Album infomation say by selecting a group of files then properities and type this information in and save it does it go somewhere other than where ID3 Tag information is stored? I think it must because if I 'Update all database fields' which I belive is described in Help as an update from id3 Tag information, the information I have typed and saved disappears.
I have never used the "Update all database fields" option. I read the help file regarding it and am still not really clear on what it is supposed to do. In any event, you don't need to use it to save ID3 tag info. Make sure that your MP3 Input Plugin (Settings/Plug-in Manager) is configured correctly. Both ID3v1 and ID3v2 modes should be set to "Save (create if necessary)". Then when you choose a group of files, right-click and choose Properties and fill in Album/Artist info and hit Save, the tags will be updated. There is no need to use "Update all database fields" to save tag info.
Regarding v8 and v9beta of MJ, v8 is the audio only jukebox and v9 is audio, as well as video, dvd and image browsing.
Rob