Howard Chu wrote:
> My Sony DVD player (DVP-C600D) displays disc titles from CD-Text, but
> doesn't display track titles. My JVC CHX1200 12 disc changer in my car
> displays disc and track titles on my KDMX3000 head unit. (And there's the
MD
> connection - the KDMX3000 is still the world's only single-DIN sized MD/CD
> head unit. Great deck. Unfortunately, the head unit itself doesn't display
> CD-Text for CDs played in its single slot. Stupid, considering that it
> displays disc & track titles for MDs played in the same slot.)
Yep, the KDMX3000 rocks, and at $500 from Crutchfield, it's not a bad deal!
Speaking of CD-Text, I just tried that experiment last night, and
discovered, as you noted, that it's not supported, unfortunately. Even
worse was my recent experience of copying a new Ben Folds Five CD ("The
Unauthorized Bio. of Reinhold Messner") to MD with my Sony MXD-D3. The disc
and tracks are titled, but when you copy it to MD, you get a scrolling "TEXT
PROTECT" message and the titles don't copy over. The previous BFF CD I have
("Whatever and Ever, Amen") has CD-Text which copies fine, so some evil
lawyer at Sony must've decided that the copy protection bit would be a good
thing to start turning on..
Let me get this straight: You can copy the digital audio to MD just fine
(pursuant to SCMS restrictions), but they won't let you copy the titles??
Thus forcing me, a legitimate owner of a CD, making a legitimate copy for
personal use, to waste an extra 5 minutes spinning the titling knob just to
enter a few dozen bytes of info that are ALREADY on the CD and are certainly
no big secret (considering the titles are printed right on the frickin'
jewel box) but their lawyers are too *!#$^ lame to allow them to be copied
over?! Thus Sony Music subverts a selling point of one of Sony's own
consumer electronics devices. And big companies wonder why we've grown wary
of their antics..
BTW, my recently purchased HP USB CD-Writer (8210e) doesn't support CD-TEXT
for reading or writing.. However, the last time I used Easy CD Creator, I
remember there *is* an option to title an audio CD in a way that the Windows
Deluxe CD player can read the titling info. This might be worth looking
into if you only want to read the titles on your computer. However this
works, presumably it doesn't require any special features on the CD-R, and
who knows, perhaps some enterprising programmer will add support for this to
some of the Linux CD players, if it isn't there already. If anyone has more
info on how that works, I'd appreciate it..
-Jake
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