Did You Know ( the text button on 04 Solara)

[Shoe]

If YOu have inserted a CD into the cd player of the 04 solara and hit the text button you will have probably found that the tracks are "no title"

if you want to chgange that you can burn cds with text if you have newer versions of cd burning software, I have a Mac and toast 5.2 and toast 6 suport burning cds with text since roxio makes toast Im assuming they would have also done this for easy cd creator wich they make for the PC.

Anyway I burned my cd with text and now when I play my cds they read artist and song title just more flash for the people that you take for a ride in your 04 solara

shoe

[fotodad]

If YOu have inserted a CD into the cd player of the 04 solara and hit the text button you will have probably found that the tracks are "no title"

if you want to chgange that you can burn cds with text if you have newer versions of cd burning software, I have a Mac and toast 5.2 and toast 6 suport burning cds with text since roxio makes toast Im assuming they would have also done this for easy cd creator wich they make for the PC.

Anyway I burned my cd with text and now when I play my cds they read artist and song title just more flash for the people that you take for a ride in your 04 solara

shoe

Shoe,

I have an iMac with iTunes. When I burn a CD it's through iTunes. Do I need Toast in order to burn text-CDs? If I don't need Toast, how do I burn an iTunes CD with text (if it's possible to do via iTunes, that is)

Thanks for creating this thread. I would have never known about this otherwise! Do you have XM satellite radio, also?

[Shoe]

as far as i know itunes dosent suport cd text yet it should soon though to keep up with the competition maybe withthe new operating system mac os x panther 10.3 out later this year.

If you need to get your hands on a copy of toast write me
funshoe34@gmx.net

shoe

[bigpow]

so I tried it.
it's not a scrolling text...
it sits there, so it's not really what I have in mind.

Hmmmm

[Shoe]

ya sucks taht it just sits there the scrolling woulda been nicer you can hit the text button again to get the rest of the song title i know what you mean about scrolling text though would be nice to see the whole artist title ect without having to push buttons but im not 1 for movement in the car theres enough going on outside ya know what im saying


shoe

[himynam3isjas0n]

yah i realized taht too with my solara, but then again i didnt burn alot of cd's so if you have time can you send me the software and i'l check it out myself =P

[Guest]

i use a hp burner, and i only use the basic software which comes with the burner itself in a box. and all the CD's i burn from DL mp3 all display their proper name without much problem.

[bigpow]

The head unit will display only the 12 first characters (of CD title & song title)

If you know how to make it a scrolling text, let us know.

[kubi]

i use a hp burner, and i only use the basic software which comes with the burner itself in a box. and all the CD's i burn from DL mp3 all display their proper name without much problem.

That is because MP3s have ID3 tags. If the information is in the ID3 tag it doesn't matter if your burner/software supports CD Text or not, it will display.

[Shoe]

you cant make it scroll as far as i know i dont think that display screen can handle that sorta thing but if you wanna see the rest of the title hold down the text button it will beep and the rest of the title will appear

shoe

[bigpow]

Now I'm confused.

Shoe, when I wrote 'scrolling' - I meant scrolling text... not by pushing the TEXT button everytime the song changes

kubi, Solara headunit displays CD-TEXT information - which is (depending on the burning software) gathered from the file name of the source (say, an MP3 file). Some softwares allows editing of each song information to be burned. Headunit has nothing to with MP3. It's only a coincedence your headunit displays the correct artist - song - because your MP3 source is correctly named so.

I'm thinking more of the winamp scrolling text: artist - song title

I'm a Geek

[kubi]

I'm a geek too

I'm pretty sure we're both right, though. My burner doesn't even support CD Text, but song names still display on my head unit.

[Shoe]

no offence but if your a geek then they are giving away passes to the geekdom club for nothing in your area arnt they?

the cd burner no matter what it is wether its my 2x speed mac scsi burner or your brand new 48 x usb drive on a top of the line pc will burn what the application tells it to. Your application what ever it maybe has read either the file name or the mp3 id tag and burned the cd text to your disk.

its in the application not the burner

and the solara screen will not scroll text only display screen frames

whod want scrolling anything in the car too much movement on the roads to watch dont need dancing crabs, rocket ships, graphic equilizer bars or scrolling text on a display in the car too distract me.

to fix the mess make short titles use only the artist or the song title not both


shoe

[kubi]

Actually if you try to burn a cd with cd text it says "Your burner does not support writing CD Text." or something to that effect.

[bigpow]

IMO, CD-TEXT require new(er) burning softwares.
I use Nero 6.0.00.23 myself with LTR-48246S drive.
With the same drive, I don't remember seeing this option with Nero 5.0 (the version that came standard with the drive).
It also requires DAO/96 write method checked. (if your drive can't do DAO/96, it may or may not work - I don't know, I don't have anything slower than 16X)

Kubi, don't confuse CD-TEXT with the option Write Text on CD -> this is for new(er) Adaptec CD-R/W drives that is able to print text directly onto the CD surface (assuming you use a CD with printable surface). If you select this option but don't have the appropriate CD-R/W, it will complain about not supporting ...

Also, some burning software are 'smart' enough to check the internet database for proper artist name, song information, etc. (if your source is from a CD-Audio).

Shoe, I agree, it's limited to 12 chars of artist/song title - just like the old days of DOS. It would take 7 years to have a headunit that supports long filename.

I still don't know what application can display CD-TEXT on PC.
I tried WMP9 & winamp so far. Any idea?