A question on Music CD

CD-text! Look at Sony CD players. I would have liked them to have added this to their DVD range also!

Have a look at things like Nero that allow to you add CD-text to a music CD. Not very many CD-text CD get created, even from the ones from Sony!

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probably wasnt thought of at that time. For one, people were probably glad at the time just to have digital audio, and having the playing time count up on the display as it played, and also the manufacturers probably didnt want the expense of alphanumeric displays in the CD players.

Biggest problem of all here is of course that the record industry is a government protected monopoly and wouldn't be innovative or move with the times even if its life depended on it. We should consider ourselves lucky that we ever got to have the CD :)

if you want this however, use winamp or such on your PC. it connects back to a database online and works out the track and artist names of almost all CDs based on the playing times of the tracks. bit inconvenient, but dont know of other ways.

If you want to experiment a little with CD-TEXT but you don't have a CD player capable of displaying it you might want to try the free download of a CD TEXT reader for your PC from -

Cheers, Alan

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Free download of an EVALUATION version of a commercial product. Lets not be like politicians!

And your problem with this is?

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Not a problem, just that it isn't 'free'.

Well it's free to try. :) For the purpose of the exercise of reading CD-TEXT without a player. Included the link purely for experimentation on the OP's part. Nothing more.

Cheers, Alan