CD-TEXT reading

[endorf]

Hi,

My wish would be CD-TEXT support...

Even though many audio CD's (and players!) that you buy in the store still don't have CD-TEXT title/track information it's really a great feature, especially for home-made compilation CD's.

Other than original CD's, compilation audio CD's can't properly be looked up in the FreeDB. If you instruct your CD-Writing software to add this information when you burn it, any audio CD player that supports this 1996 standard will show you the title/artist info in the screen.
Unfortunately, WinAMP doesn't support it, but maybe you can have SongsDB read this separately upon indexing.

(personally, I don't get why WinAmp and many standalone audio CD players don't support this - or indeed, why the info isn't added to every post-1996 CD production!)

thanks,
Endorf

[jiri]

Yes, I plan to add support for CD-TEXT. Maybe not in the next version, but definitely soon.

Jiri

[llwb]

My wish would be CD-TEXT support...

Me too.

it's really a great feature, especially for home-made compilation CD's.

And if you have a large number of these, you really need either CD-Text support OR the possibility of IMPORTING from cdplayer.ini or other files or databases.

CD text support would be a great addition to this appealing program.

TIA
llwb

[jiri]

Songs-DB currently imports from CDPlayer.ini, CD-TEXT is in the list of things to do...

Jiri

[Guest]

Songs-DB currently imports from CDPlayer.ini

I will be looking forward to the addition of CD-text feature - any idea when this might come to pass?

WRT CDplayer.ini, I searched both the Help file and the manual file but found no reference to either CDplayer.ini or even to the word Import. Nor did I find the feature listed as a menu option anywhere in the program (though I did see the Export options). Can you please tell me where I need to look in order to import from my CDplayer.ini file.

TIA
llwb

[jiri]

Unfortunatelly I cannot say more about CD-Text, it is in the to-do list as well as a number of other interesting features. I'll try to do my best...

Actually, you don't need to do anything for using CDplayer.ini file. Songs-DB automatically imports data from this file when a new CD is scanned, you just need to have the file in the Windows folder, then it should work.

Jiri