How to add/update CD-Text on Audio CD

This tutorial teaches you how to add/update CD-Text on audio CD when you need to prepare a CD master for CD Duplication .

When you put a music CD in your car stereo you may notice the track names and/or the names of the performers on the LCD screen. That information is coming from the CD-Text on the CD. CD-Text, not to be confused with the song names showing up on iTune or Windows Media Player, is embedded on the CD itself. iTune and WMP track names are retrieved from Internet repositories. If you want track names show up on iTune and Windows Media Player then that is another subject. This tutorial deals mainly with CD-Text.

Step 1 How to add CD-Text to an audio CD compilation?

CD-Text is normally input during the mastering stage. Program such as NERO allows the input of CD-Text when the CD is compiled. For instance the screen shot below shows a check box for enabling CD-Text when you use NERO to compile a new audio CD.

Once CD-Text is enabled, you can type in the CD title and the name of the artist that apply to the CD as a whole. You can also type in the track name and track artist individually for each track as shown below.

If your CD/DVD writer is capable of writing CD-Text then the burned CD should have all the information on it. Please refer to the specifications of the CD/DVD writer to find out whether it is CD-Text capable.