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More => Old Versions => Media Center 17 => Topic started by: skylarplane on July 02, 2012, 10:21:05 pm

Title: MC Not reading CD information
Post by: skylarplane on July 02, 2012, 10:21:05 pm

I have a CD that I'm loading to MC Steal Away by William Gokelman but
MC is not collecting the needed information from the disc.  It's requiring
me to fill in all information like title, etc.  What is wrong

Skylar

Title: Re: MC Not reading CD information
Post by: Alex B on July 03, 2012, 03:51:40 am

The original Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs does not provide any means for storing metadata. The so called CD-Text extension was introduced in the 90's. CD-text can store some basic metadata, but unfortunately it is not often included in the Audio CD's. MC supports reading CD-text data if the disc includes it and also the physical drive can read CD-Text.

In this case, CD-Text is probably not available and neither of the two online databases that MC can use for obtaining metadata happen to contain information about this Audio CD (i.e. no one has submitted it yet).