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CD-R and Audio Hardware => CD Hardware/Software => Topic started by: DJB on 2006-12-13 20:07:18

Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: DJB on 2006-12-13 20:07:18
It's an EAC drive option, under the Offset / Speed tab. The mouse-over balloon in EAC indicates that the option has to be manually specified - that it cannot be reliably tested for by EAC. My drive is a Samsung SW-248F (hey, I'm just starting off    ), but it isn't so much the specific info, as much as how I can find out that info for my other (several different) drives.

TIA - Regards,
DaveB
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: benski on 2006-12-13 20:15:24
I believe the reason that it is a manual setting is that some drives will claim to read it, but just return empty data.  The only real way to test is to find a CD with CD text and see if your drive reads it!
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: DJB on 2006-12-13 20:43:37
I believe the reason that it is a manual setting is that some drives will claim to read it, but just return empty data.  The only real way to test is to find a CD with CD text and see if your drive reads it!


Sheesh - you mean smething as simple as copying a plain old ASCII file to a CD and seeing if I can read it back?!?  How could that not work with any drive?!? Surely there's something more to it, or?

And thanks!
DaveB
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Cosmo on 2006-12-13 21:14:51
No, CD-Text (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Text) is not as simple as "a text file on a CD".
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: DJB on 2006-12-13 23:28:39
No, CD-Text (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Text) is not as simple as "a text file on a CD".



Thanks. Which brings me back to my original post. [/i]How do I know an of my drives support CD-text? Is there a database out there? I cannot find one. A utility, perhaps? Some sort of easy test? I just don't yet know what I am even looking for, exactly.

Again, TIA

DaveB
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Paws on 2006-12-13 23:32:25
HEY CAN SOMEONE TELL ME IF THIS DRIVE< can write cd-text, and read cd-text?
Plextor PlexWriter PX-230A/SW 3-in-1 Internal EIDE 52x32x52 CD-R/RW Drive


I currently have a phillips, that according to nero, can read cd-text but i can't write cd-text. Though if i actually copy a cd, it copys all the information. But home made tracks, say track 1, unless its mp3. Hope someone can check that for me, before i buy.
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Cosmo on 2006-12-14 03:47:12
this could tell you if your drive can both read and write CD-Text -

[1]- Enable "EAC > Drive Options > Writer tab > Drive is able to write CD-Text".
Burn a CD with EAC from a cue sheet which contains the artist, album and track info.

[2]- With that disc loaded, first choose "Database > Clear actual CD information".
Then choose "Database > Get CD Information from > CD-Text".

If CD-Text was written, and the drive can read it, then the artist, album and track info will now be present in the main EAC window.

I don't know if it's a definitive test ... probably not ... all I know is that it has worked for all my RW drives.
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Martin H on 2006-12-14 09:07:14
I don't know if it's a definitive test ... probably not ... all I know is that it has worked for all my RW drives.

Of course it is
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Kees de Visser on 2006-12-14 10:10:49
I don't know if it's a definitive test ... probably not ... all I know is that it has worked for all my RW drives.
Well, the test can only prove that the drive can write and read cd-text. If at least one of them fails, the test won't give you a final answer
Better try to find a cd with cd-text as a reference.
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Cosmo on 2006-12-14 13:08:24

I don't know if it's a definitive test ... probably not

Of course it is

I was thinking that a failed test might not be due to the drive being incapable of either reading or writing CD-Text. The possibility of things such as software bugs, etc.

Well, the test can only prove that the drive can write and read cd-text. If at least one of them fails, the test won't give you a final answer

Of course. I tried to be clear about that by emphasizing the word "both".

Better try to find a cd with cd-text as a reference.

But it's possible that my suggestion could yield a positive answer in just a few minutes. Without luck or any other suggestions, it could take much longer to locate a suitable CD. A brief Google search shows that Samsung's SW-248F claims support of CD-Text, and I believe my suggestion has a good chance of giving a successful validation. ...Or the first commercial CD you try might actually contain CD-Text. 
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: greynol on 2006-12-14 16:29:06
Commercial CDs with CD-Text aren't very common; in fact they are extremely rare, or at least they used to be.
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Kees de Visser on 2006-12-14 17:33:09
Commercial CDs with CD-Text aren't very common; in fact they are extremely rare, or at least they used to be.
Yesterday I received a new cd which I recorded and mastered and AFAIK the record company doesn't even know that cd-text was included in the master. On my MacBook EAC reads the cd-text, but iTunes doesn't. I've read somewhere that it should be possible. Does anyone know how to make iTunes read cd-text ? Would be nice to have the feature.
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Teknojnky on 2006-12-14 18:22:49
Nero Info Tool. (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nero+info+tool)
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: greynol on 2006-12-14 18:29:14
Nero Info Tool. (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nero+info+tool)

I don't find this to be a trustworthy program.  It just said that one of my drives doesn't support CD-Text that actually does.
Title: How do I know if my drive is "CD-Text Read capable"?
Post by: Cosmo on 2006-12-14 21:23:13
Does anyone know how to make iTunes read cd-text ?

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/...#cdtexttocdinfo (http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=2#cdtexttocdinfo)