CD-Text
Optical discs
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- Blu-ray Disc (BD): BD-R, BD-RE
- DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, HVD, EcoDisc
- Compact Disc (CD): Red Book, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, SACD, Photo CD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), SVCD, CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i
- Universal Media Disc (UMD)
- Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
- Forward Versatile Disc (FVD)
- Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)
- China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD)
- HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM
- High definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD)
- VCDHD
- GD-ROM
- MiniDisc (MD) (Hi-MD)
- Laserdisc (LD) (LD-ROM)
- Video Single Disc (VSD)
- Ultra Density Optical (UDO)
- Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk (SVOD)
- Five dimensional disc (5D DVD)
- Nintendo optical disc (NOD)
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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 either 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. The latter 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.
Format
MMC-3 specifies 16 types. Of these, three are reserved and so don't have keywords.
CD Text Keywords
| Keyword |
Description |
Section |
Format |
| ARRANGER |
Name(s) of the arranger(s) |
Any |
Character |
| COMPOSER |
Name(s) of the composer(s) |
Any |
Character |
| DISK_ID |
Disc Identification information |
Any |
Binary |
| GENRE |
Genre Identification and Genre information |
Any |
Binary |
| ISRC |
ISRC Code of each track |
Track |
Character |
| MESSAGE |
Message from the content provider and/or artist |
Any |
Character |
| PERFORMER |
Name(s) of the performer(s) |
Any |
Character |
| SONGWRITER |
Name(s) of the songwriter(s) |
Any |
Character |
| TITLE |
Title of album name or Track Titles |
Any |
Character |
| TOC_INFO |
Table of Content information |
Any |
Binary |
| TOC_INFO2 |
Second Table of Content information |
Any |
Binary |
| UPC_EAN |
UPC/EAN code of the album |
Disc |
Character |
| SIZE_INFO |
Size information of the Block |
Any |
Binary |
The character encoding is not specified, and there is no provision for indicating in the CD-Text data which encoding is in use. The original Sony authoring tools and specifications supported ASCII and two of its supersets, ISO-8859-1 and "MS-JIS". Annex J of the MMC-2 specification mentions only ASCII, but provides for "double byte character codes" to be indicated.
Software
- Audiograbber has support for reading CD-Text to fill in artist/title information (if present) when ripping CDs
- Brasero has support for CD-Text from version 0.5.90
- cdrdao, Linux command line tool that supports writing CD-Text.
- CDex can read from CD-Text.
- CDRWIN can burn CD-Text
- Exact Audio Copy have support for reading CD-Text to fill in artist/title information (if present) when ripping CDs.
- foobar2000 Since version 1.0 foobar2000 has support for reading CD-Text to fill in artist/title information (if present) when playing and ripping CDs.
- icedax, Linux command line tool that supports reading CD-Text.
- ImgBurn can burn CD-Text. This information can be added/modified during the creation of a .CUE file.
- IsoBuster copies CD-Text (if available) when a CD is ripped in raw format and saves it to a .cdt file.
- iTunes 7 or higher supports burning with CD Text. It is by default an unchecked option in the burning preferences.
- K3b has support for reading and writing CD-Text on Linux.
- MediaMonkey has full CD-Text Support.
- MusicBee audio player/organizer can read CD-Text when playing or ripping CDs.
- Nero Burning ROM can burn CD-Text since version 5.5.10; its track saving utility can read CD-Text when ripping.
- PowerISO has support for CD-Text from version 4.5
- Realplayer 10 supports Reading and Writing of CD-Text
- Sound Juicer can read from CD-Text
- Toast on Mac OS X has support for CD-Text.
- VLC media player can read CD-Text on all platforms
- Winamp has had support for reading CD-Text since version 5.31, but does not write CD-Text.
- Windows Media Player 10 and higher with the WMPCDText plug-in supports reading CD-Text.
- X-CD-Roast for Linux has had reading/writing support since version 0.98alpha10.
- The underlying command-line utilities cdrecord/cdda2wav have support in (at least) version 2.01, but it must be enabled. See the documentation.
Hardware
- JVC's Arsenal KD-AR400 automotive CD AM-FM receiver (briefly) displays CD-Text data
- Pioneer CD Receivers support CD-Text
- Professional Pioneer DJ CD players (CDJ-200/400/800/1000/2000, CMX-3000) support CD-Text, up to 48 characters are displayed on the latest CDJ-400 and CDJ-1000 MK3
- Holden VE Commodore (2006>)
- At least one Sony SACD player supports it.
See also
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