Can the cd read the name of cd playing not just 1,2,3

[ikeym]

Can't get the cd player to read the name of the cd ,like billy joel or beatles etc.. Mine just says cd 1 cd2 cd3v etc. My cheap home player reads the names ????? Anybody know if it can be done on the car ? Thanks

 

[dg_moore]

The cd player can read the names of mp3's but not, AFAIK, regular cd's. Why not rip your cd's to mp3, name the tracks any way you want, organize them into folders, and then burn them to a thumb drive and plug it into the USB port? I have over 130 cd's on a 16GB thumb drive, all organized into folders with names I have specified.

 

[Sayantsi]

I think it depends on whether or not the text files for the song track are included on the CD. Are you talking about burned CDs or store-bought CDs, and then, new CDs or older ones?

 

[flyboy2]

dg moore

Organized people like you make me sick. You must have a wife that works while you sit home alone with the baby working on your golf swing in between feedings-- Will you please come over and organize my songs?

PS. How do you convert I-tunes to MP3?

 

[dg_moore]

dg moore

Organized people like you make me sick. You must have a wife that works while you sit home alone with the baby working on your golf swing in between feedings-- Will you please come over and organize my songs?

PS. How do you convert I-tunes to MP3?

I have a wife who is about to cut back her hours to half time so she can stay home and spend more time with grandbabies. My contribution to this enterprise is to put off retirement yet again. Since I have never stepped foot on a golf course, I use that extra time to organize my files. The fun never stops...

You can actually use iTunes to create mp3's directly, but only if the particular songs are not under DRM (digital rights management - some are and some aren't). Here's a link that discusses this and tells you how to do it: http://www.tech-faq.com/convert-itunes-to-mp3.html

HTH
Dave

 

[flyboy2]

Dave thanks. I knew there were some babies in their somewhere-

 

[cschuler]

The cd player can read the names of mp3's but not, AFAIK, regular cd's. Why not rip your cd's to mp3, name the tracks any way you want, organize them into folders, and then burn them to a thumb drive and plug it into the USB port? I have over 130 cd's on a 16GB thumb drive, all organized into folders with names I have specified.

Good advice ... have been using FreeRip to put our best CD music onto thumb drives and it works great.

 

[Sayantsi]

So I inserted a CD I made with track info burned, and tried this out on my non-tech lexicon. The default display is just Track 1,2,3,etc, but if you press the Info button it will cycle through the disc information; artist, song name, album name, etc. But then it reverts back to Track 1,2,3,etc...

I couldn't figure out any way to have it stay on selected info, like show the song name all the time, but at least you can get to it. (non tech lexicon at least)

 

[ASHDUMP]

There are only a hand full of CD's that are store bought in my collection that actually show CD title and song names. Most of the CD's that show this information are also "Enhanced CD's" that do other useless things when plugged into your computer.

So, unless the Beatles have really cool features on their CD's when plugged into your home computer, most likely they will not show song information.

What kind of head unit do you have at home that shows song/title information? Is it a computer?

 

[ikeym]

hi, I have a bose unit that shows the name of the cd playing , even the old ones .--well most of them I dont check it because its a single cd/dvd player hooked up to the tv. sound system by the way the bose unit works great !!!!

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[Sayantsi]

The information is on the CD, the Lexicon unit is just not designed to show it to you unless you press a button.

 

[bigel]

The information is on the CD, the Lexicon unit is just not designed to show it to you unless you press a button.

I have a 2009 with DIS and what I have found is that some CDs show track title and CD Title and some just do not. I'm wondering if anyone knows the CD formats that Lexicon can read? There's got to be some ryme and reason to it...

Not sure what to make of the discussions about the title info only showing when 'massaged', my experience has been that the information is either there, or it's not.

 

[BossaNova]

I have a 2009 with Tech package. I have iTunes on my computer and found that by importing a CD to iTunes, making a playlist of it and burning the playlist back to a recordable CD "including CD text" (an option on the burn window for audio CD) the track titles and the album title show in the disc player of the Lexicon. I don't know if this will work for the non-Tech disc player.

 

[Edenesque]

What is a... "cd"?

 

[Onedurwho]

"Certificate Of Deposit". Some folks use it to deposit money in, make some interest, and get it back later. Most of my older relatives used them at one time or another...

 

[Tarheel]

I have a 2009 with DIS and what I have found is that some CDs show track title and CD Title and some just do not. I'm wondering if anyone knows the CD formats that Lexicon can read? There's got to be some ryme and reason to it...

Not sure what to make of the discussions about the title info only showing when 'massaged', my experience has been that the information is either there, or it's not.

I have found that a "regular" CD does not display track names while an SACD or a DVD-Audio does display. However, I have also found that the Lexicon does not fully support SACD -- the songs play, but there appear to be layers of sound that are not picked up (hey -- they never claimed to support SACD, so I'm not complaining). I'm not technical enough to know if support for SACD is a software or a hardware upgrade, so I have no idea how to improve sound quality on SACD. The DVD audio discs are superb.

 

[OBCT]

My experience suggests the following...

• Some store-bought CDs display album/track info, however, the majority do not. [I think it comes down to which use the CD-TEXT standard - I don't know why some don't.]
  
• Homemade (self-burned) CDs will display album/track info if the proper software is used and CD-TEXT is selected.
  
• DVD-Audios usually but do not always display album/track info.
  
• SACDs, while not strictly compatible with the Genesis DIS, often have a normal CD layer burned onto them (making them SACD Hybrid discs), which can be read like a normal-resolution CD by any optical drive. These discs only display album/track info some of the time.

 

[nearwater]

First time I saw CD text and song titles display, was with a CD that I burned the original CD 'image' into. (So basically a real copy of a store-bought CD).
Funny thing is, I don't recall seeing titles with the DVD-A discs that I bought.

Dan