CD-Text
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CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information (e.g. album name, song name, and artist) on a standards-compliant audio CD. The information is stored in the lead-in area of the CD, where there is roughly five kilobytes of space available, or in the Subchannels R to W on the disc, which can store about 31 megabytes. These areas are not used by strict Red Book CDs. The text is stored in a format usable by the Interactive Text Transmission System (ITTS). ITTS is also used by Digital Audio Broadcasting or the MiniDisc. The specification was released in September 1996 and backed by Sony. Support for CD Text is common, but not universal. Utilities exist to automatically rip CD-TEXT data, and insert it into CDDB or freedb.
[edit] Software
- iTunes 7 now supports burning with CD Text. It is by default an unchecked option in the burning preferences.
- X-CD-Roast has had reading/editing/writing support since version 0.98alpha10.
- Winamp has support for CD-Text since version 5.31.
- Exact Audio Copy and CDex have support for reading CD-Text to fill in artist/title information (if present) for the user when ripping CDs.
