wysiwyg111

aaaaannnd once again replying to my own post. quick addition: it seems that this desired info is found by CDDB, now know as Gracenote http://www.gracenote.com/business_solutions/music_id/ must be where WMP and such are getting song info and strengthens my suspicion that the UPC CODE is probably involved somehow. Regards, -A. Freeman

ok, now i'm replying to my own post... how pathetic is that? *grin* upon closer examination, i find more interesting info. using windows media player 9, default with winxpprosp2, and with a firewall, zonealarm, not allowing access to the net, various commercial CD's have different behavior and info popping into WMP. some using random and various CD's, i get some of the following behavior. all CD's play both in my drive and also a cheapy, no-frills, portable diskman-alike. "destiny's child/'the writing's on the wall'" appears as a data disk in the drive; the name comes up in the "my computer - explorer" window, but WMP still wants to access the net to get song info "lifescapes/'celtic romances'" appears as an audio disk - WMP also wants to access the net to get any song info, but gets it all right away when allowed net access "deee-lite/'dewdrops in the garden'" which i just recreated from mp3's exactly as the original album, appears as an audio disk - WMP wants to access the net, but comes up with NO song/album/artist info even though all of this was entered both in the mp3's, into roxio's info fields, and as much of same was entered into burn express (two different CD's, one created with each program) so...? more ideas folks? Regards, -A. Freeman

Dear N.C.H a.n and All: HAS ANYONE HERE CREATED AN AUDIO DISK THAT STILL SHOWS THE SONG/ALBUM/ARTIST INFO USING _ANY_ SOFTWARE OTHER THAT A DIRECT COPY OF A COMMERCIAL DISK? ok. yes, media player et alia DO get their info from the net. BUT, they DO GET said information. what is the key bit of info that is being missed in the audio CD's that "we" are creating? having re-created an album from assorted mp3's exactly as the original, there is some info that is still missing. is this the UPC code? when using roxio easy media creator 7 basic dvd, i notice that there is a spot to put "UPC CODE" and i have left that blank. roxio seems to create the audio cd's in the same output format as burn express. i find express burn simpler to use that the gargantuan roxio, so i'll probably stick with it, but it sure would be nice to get that missing song/track/album/artist info that the mp3's contain onto the audio CD's i/we are creating. thanks for this forum too, btw. Regards, -A. Freeman