Question about burning CD-text?

I have been using ImgBurn for burning CDs. I have recently used EAC as well at times. My question is there an easy way to find out if my CD burner can write CD-text. Interestingly, The burn works great and the associated CUE file I though was the CD-text, but when I play it in my car player (which can supposedly read CD-text)there is nothing. When I play the CD in Winamp it reads the CD text of the disc.
right now I just have the standard Dell CD burner HL-DT-STCDRW/DVD GCC4482.
Is anyone aware if this can write CD text or how I can easily find out?
thanks,
Tim

 

The burner will burn what it is told to burn. It is not the software. I do not use ImgBurn to burn audio.

I use an Audio Manager to burn audio. WinAmp is smart enough to read the tag info so that is not proof that there is text on the CD. It does prove the tags are filled with the right information.

I would try burning with WinAmp. My audio manager will walk you through all the steps for making a audio CD. It should prompt you if you want to include text if you are making an mp3 disk. Then it should prompt you for what tags you want where in the text. I would be surprized if WinAmp doesn't make it easy to do what you want.

 

hey thanks for the info, I will try winamp but last I looked into it it does not write CD text (which is unbelievable to me but this is what they say searching their forum.) maybe i'll check again as a later version might now do this.
peace
tim

 

I am at home, my version of imgburn does not support text that I can see.

I don't use Winamp much. I looked but I often ca't figure out how to do something with WinAmp.

Media Monkey does a great job burning audio disks. You click on the disk on fire icon to burn. That is why I use it to burn all my audio disks. You ought to check out the free version. It will either burn a play list or highlighted tunes. It has so many nice features needed for burning mp3 disks. Once you start using it for that there is no reason to keep looking.

 

One last detail. My CD player has more than one text channel. I usually have Artist+Album on line one and the Title on line 2.

 

thanks a lot for the help. I might have to check out the Media Monkey like you said. I usually use Winamp and am pretty happy with it other than not being able to burn CD-text.

 

You out to. You might not like the interface sicne you like WinAmp. Check it out anyway. Mp3s CDs are my prefered source of music.

Check out the script forum if you are a bit techie. They are easy enough to use. Scripts are ad ons to the app made by anyone that can write a VB script. Some are very powerful. There are hundreds of them. In fact if you can think of something MM does not do and there is no script and the task is useful some one will write one to do the job.

 

pretty much all CD or DVD burners made in the last 4 or 5 years can burn CD Text. When I burn my mp3s to an audio CD I using Nero Burning Rom, it automatically burns the CD Text as well.