No Title For Any Cd Inserted

[forevered]

do any of you guys know why no matter what cd i insert the message no title comes up ?

thanks for any advice given

[tavy]

press TEXT switch; each time you press the switch, the display changes like this: track no./elapsed time > CD title > track name; if the title has more than 13 characters, press and hold TEXT switch for 1 sec. or more...

[Mooly]

"Ordinary" CD's have no title info on them.

CDR's (MP3/WAV/WMA etc) done on a PC can have text added.

[Jan&tone]

"Ordinary" CD's have no title info on them.

CDR's (MP3/WAV/WMA etc) done on a PC can have text added.

Sorry mate, all my 'ordinary' cd's show a title when inserted into my PC or Laptop... Not on my cd player though, it's too old and not in our Aygo either, although never really tried, jusp play mp3's and iPad in there and the Prius has gracenote to do that anyway...

[Norfolk n Chance]

"Ordinary" CD's have no title info on them.

CDR's (MP3/WAV/WMA etc) done on a PC can have text added.

Sorry mate, all my 'ordinary' cd's show a title when inserted into my PC or Laptop... Not on my cd player though, it's too old and not in our Aygo either, although never really tried, jusp play mp3's and iPad in there and the Prius has gracenote to do that anyway...

Ordinary CD's have all the info stored on them (album name, artist, track etc) but they do not have 'CD Text' which is what the Toyota headunits work from.

Burning your own CD's is the only way to get the display function to show the track in the car.... I have no 'original' CD's in mine, just copies... all the originals stay at home

[forevered]

thanks for the advice

[wastedagen]

i found if I used Nero I couldn't get it to write the cd text even though it was selected to do so in the settings. But when I burn using window media player it burns the cd text just fine and pops up on the display.

[Mooly]

I can understand the confusion :)

Most ordinary "Red Book" standard CD's DO NOT have text/album/artist info on them. CD text was introduced in 1996 more than a decade after "CD" was released and is not universally used.

When you put discs in a PC etc the PC looks at total playing time, number of tracks, length of each track. The PC then connects to a data base comparing that info with known "matches" to identify the CD. And it sometimes gets it wrong... and sometimes not as below.

This "scandal" only came to light with the advent of PC's when discs by a well known pianist were being found to be being flagged as other obscure recordings by lesser known artists,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hatto

[Jan&tone]

When you put discs in a PC etc the PC looks at total playing time, number of tracks, length of each track. The PC then connects to a data base comparing that info with known "matches" to identify the CD. And it sometimes gets it wrong... and sometimes not as below.

This is assuming of course thar tfhe PC or Laptop is connected to the internet at the time!