Dances With Crows

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:50:09 GMT, John staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> My elantra has the Kenwood CD/MP3 Premium Audio w/ Remote Control,
> Detachable Face and 6 Speakers. I put in the name of one of my cd's

"Put in the name of one of my CDs"? Er... what precisely did you do
here? Do you mean, "I used the keys on the remote or the audio player
to inform the audio system that the CD currently in the drive is called
'Example CD' "?

> and now when I play it the names of the songs come up on the system.
> I don't know what I did to get it to do this and have yet to replicate
> it for any of my other CD's.

Hm. So you don't know exactly what you did? Keep trying to recreate
it. There are some CDs that have what's called "CD-Text" information on
them; it could be that the audio system is reading this data and
displaying it. It's possible to burn an audio CD with CD-Text
information included using the -text option to cdrecord, or putting
CD_TEXT lines into the .cue files cdrdao uses.

Also, each audio CD has a (theoretically) unique series of bytes in its
TOC. FreeDB.org uses this series of bytes as an identifier, and has
lists of the track titles keyed to this identifier. So if you insert a
CD with unique series 0xBEEFDEADF000, kscd or xmms can query freedb.org
using that identifier, and find out that track 1 is called "example song
1", track 2 is called "MacArthur Park", etc. (This is how grip
automatically extracts titles from the CD when you're using it to
rip/encode.)

> The manual doesn't offer any insight on this.

Figures. Have you tried Googling on the exact make+model# of this audio
system?

> before you mention it I'm talking store bought cd's not MP3's those
> always show the name of the file.

"MP3s" here meaning "A CD burned with an ISO9660 (plus Joliet and/or
Rock Ridge extensions) filesystem, containing mp3 files", or "An audio
CD created from mp3 files"?

Oh, it's "CDs" and "MP3s". http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif makes an
excellent memory aid.

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
As a dog stood outside the gate of a temple, the Buddha called to him,
"Dog, why do you not enter?" The dog looked back and replied, "I do not
see myself as outside." At that moment, the Buddha was enlightened.

John

cds and mp3s
"Dances With Crows" <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote in message
news:slrnbi2ukg.lpa.danceswithcrows@samantha.crow2 02.dyndns.org...
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:50:09 GMT, John staggered into the Black Sun and
> said:
> > My elantra has the Kenwood CD/MP3 Premium Audio w/ Remote Control,
> > Detachable Face and 6 Speakers. I put in the name of one of my cd's
>
> "Put in the name of one of my CDs"? Er... what precisely did you do
> here? Do you mean, "I used the keys on the remote or the audio player
> to inform the audio system that the CD currently in the drive is called
> 'Example CD' "?
>
> > and now when I play it the names of the songs come up on the system.
> > I don't know what I did to get it to do this and have yet to replicate
> > it for any of my other CD's.
>
> Hm. So you don't know exactly what you did? Keep trying to recreate
> it. There are some CDs that have what's called "CD-Text" information on
> them; it could be that the audio system is reading this data and
> displaying it. It's possible to burn an audio CD with CD-Text
> information included using the -text option to cdrecord, or putting
> CD_TEXT lines into the .cue files cdrdao uses.
>
> Also, each audio CD has a (theoretically) unique series of bytes in its
> TOC. FreeDB.org uses this series of bytes as an identifier, and has
> lists of the track titles keyed to this identifier. So if you insert a
> CD with unique series 0xBEEFDEADF000, kscd or xmms can query freedb.org
> using that identifier, and find out that track 1 is called "example song
> 1", track 2 is called "MacArthur Park", etc. (This is how grip
> automatically extracts titles from the CD when you're using it to
> rip/encode.)
>
> > The manual doesn't offer any insight on this.
>
> Figures. Have you tried Googling on the exact make+model# of this audio
> system?
>
> > before you mention it I'm talking store bought cd's not MP3's those
> > always show the name of the file.
>
> "MP3s" here meaning "A CD burned with an ISO9660 (plus Joliet and/or
> Rock Ridge extensions) filesystem, containing mp3 files", or "An audio
> CD created from mp3 files"?
>
> Oh, it's "CDs" and "MP3s". http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif makes an
> excellent memory aid.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> As a dog stood outside the gate of a temple, the Buddha called to him,
> "Dog, why do you not enter?" The dog looked back and replied, "I do not
> see myself as outside." At that moment, the Buddha was enlightened.
>