I tried importing my audio cd tracks in cda format...
You can't really think of .cda as a format in the same way that .wav or .mp3 is a format. It is really more like a place holder that Windows uses to represent the presence of audio data on a cd. You can't convert it from a cd in the same way that you can convert from one format to another. That's why when you select tracks on a cd and choose
convert rather than
rip, nothing happens.
Also, I know it's just semantics, but you seem to be kind of using
convert (from one format to another) and
rip (extracting audio data from a cd) interchangeably, when they are really two different processes. There are a few times you used
convert, but I think you actually meant
rip. No biggie, it was just a little confusing at first.
Also, not quite sure what you mean by "playlist info". Do you mean that you are creating playlists that point to different tracks on various cds? Or are you adding additional info in the properties beyond just the basics (artist, album, track, year, genre)?
I know that if I add info to a cds properties in any of the "non-standard" fields (custom1, notes, lyrics, etc), none of that info gets transferred to the resulting files when I rip the cd. Why MJ can only carry over some of the info and not all of it during ripping, I don't know, maybe someone from JRiver can answer that.
Rob