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Hey, I burned a test CD using CD Architect 5.2 and made sure that I added the titles of each track and the title of the record. I flipped that CD into my PS3 and it blatantly greeted me with a message saying that it couldn't retrieve the CD information.

My question is did I do something wrong with writing the info or burning the CD... OR does it not show up on its own. I feel like it should have shown up.

Sorry for the vagueness of this message; this is the first time I've tried burning a CD with title/track info written to it. Hopefully someone can help me or give me some advice.

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acorneau Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:18

hunter07, post: 383925 wrote: Hey, I burned a test CD using CD Architect 5.2 and made sure that I added the titles of each track and the title of the record. I flipped that CD into my PS3 and it blatantly greeted me with a message saying that it couldn't retrieve the CD information.

Bingo.

Most likely the PS3 is trying to get titles via CD-DB, not via CD-Text.

hunter07 Sat, 02/04/2012 - 06:41

acorneau, post: 383927 wrote: Bingo.

Most likely the PS3 is trying to get titles via CD-DB, not via CD-Text.

That was my thought. How does it connect my burned CD with the corresponding database info online? Do I submit my info to the database online and then get some kind of data which I write to the CD, then the PS3 would refer to that and go online to find titles, etc.?

philter1, post: 383939 wrote: I had this problem, turned out the CD writer wasn't capable of writing CD text, might wanna check that. I wound up buying an external CD writer I knew was capable of that task, turned out great.

I didn't think of that. My CD burner drive itself you're saying. Do they make external ones for this purpose which plug in USB like? I didn't realize that some CD burners weren't capable of this whereas others are.

Massive Mastering Sat, 02/04/2012 - 06:46

Yes, the data needs to be submitted to the proper databases. It can take anywhere from 'hours' to 'months' for it to actually propagate the databases. And from what I gather, they're trying their best to ignore 'one-offs' as they overload the databases with discs that will never be referenced.

I would *assume* the drive is capable of writing the data -- I haven't seen a drive that couldn't in a looooong time.

In any case, if it's some sort of test disc, it's best to not even submit it in the first place.

Massive Mastering Sat, 02/04/2012 - 21:38

The CD-TEXT data will only be read by programs and players designed to read it. A lot of car players -- I think iTunes will read CD-TEXT if you suggest that it does so...

The database methods are much easier to use to estimate piracy -- If an album sells 50,000 units in it's first week and the databases show 200,000 unique requests, they know they've been pirated (at least) 4:1 in the first week.