Windows 10: Windows Media Player, Burned CD's only give me "track 1, track 2, etc.

I have Windows Media Player (V12) and when I burn a CD, I can't get the song names on the tracks.

I tried a Plug In called WMDCDTest V1.4 - no luck here. I've looked all over and can't find a plug in to give me song names.

I've got Windows 10 installed over Windows 7.

Thanks in Advance...

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Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player used to burn a full CD but now will only cope with burning about eight tracks. Is there a setting I'm missing?

 

Missing Track Titles in Windows 10 Media Player

I have a new Windows 10 setup and I have found that when I load an audio CD, the track titles show up as the generic Track 1, Track 2 etc. Track titles are all OK in the music library and when I rip the CD the titles remain Track 1, Track 2 etc.

[The same audio CD loads in Media Player on my old Windows 7 setup with Track Titles correctly decoded and i can rip it with titles correctly displayed.]

I have tried resetting Windows Media Player and clearing the library cache without success. This supposed to just work but I have run out of ideas. Is there a hidden setting that I have to adjust or is there some new Codec that I have to load???

 

You don't say where the album you are trying to burn came from. If it's one you previously ripped from a commercially published CD, does Windows Media list the track names? Or does it say 'unknown album' and just have track numbers? For an 'unknown album' it may help if you first right-click on the unknown album and select 'Find album info'.

 

They are tracks from my wife's piano performances. In Windows Media Player, I list the songs in a certain order by name, but when I burn the CD, there are no song names, just "Track 1, Track 2, an so on. BTW, They are WAV files so they can play anywhere.

 

Go into Properties of each file , there is a tab for song name / artists etc.....make sure they have the relevant information.

 

Also, make sure that you have 'allow contents to be indexed' turned on, else WMP may still not see the titles.

 

Properties match the song title.

Is anyone using Windows Media Player and getting song titles on CD tracks?

I'll check indexing.

 

Yes, I've just made a CD complete with correct song titles. The titles were taken from the file's Properties. Use File Explorer, right click on the file and select Properties. The title used on the CD is whatever is found in the 'Details: Title' entry.

BUT, my source files were in mp3 format. Apparently there has long been a known problem that prevents you editing the properties of a .wav file. Setting the Title properties of a .wav in WMP does NOT write them to the original file's properties and will not (it seems) be used when burning a CD.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...7d77407?auth=1

That reported problem in XP is as real today in my W10. If that's the case for you too, try converting the files to a different format in which you can edit the properties. How did you make the recordings? Was it with Audacity? If so, you can open the .wav files in Audacity and export them to an .mp3 file, or FLAC for a lossless format.

 

I have a recording studio and burn a lot of Audio CD's. I use Nero BurningROM application. In order to have the Song Titles and Artist name burned on the CD, "Disk At Once/Session At Once" must be used (rather than Track At Once). I don't see this option in my WMP.

Another issue to consider, that has nothing to do with writing titles on CD's, is the disc burn speed. I use "8X" as my burn speed so discs can be played in most older audio CD players. Older audio CD players will either not play audio discs burned at higher speeds or will skip. Unfortunately all new SATA burner drives will only go down to 16X burn speed. As long as you have a newer audio CD player or one that also will play MP3's, the 16X usually is not an issue. I have a bank of 5 USB connected PATA CD/DVD burner drives that I use for my audio CD production. These will burn at 8X (and Nero BurningRom is the only burning program that I've found that will burn to multiple drives at the same time).

 

It seems to be that WMP is hard-wired to use "Disk at Once", no other option being offered. Nero shows that the test CD I burned earlier using WMP (which did include titles) has been closed and finalised.

 

What is the next most universal format that will play in CD equipment of nearly all ages?

 

The "Redbook" standard for audio CD's is 16 bit 44.1Khz wav files. I'm not sure what you mean by "universal format that will play in CD equipment of nearly all ages". Older audio CD players would only play the Redbook standard song files and as noted burned at slow speeds. Even today, there are new audio CD players that will only play the Redbook standard, not MP3's.

 

Hi there

An easy way if you find an old copy of WINAMP is to create the Virtual audio CD and mount it. Windows 10 will mount "Virtual CD"s.

Now RIP the audio CD ("Virtual CD") and it will tag all the tracks for you --works for FLAC / WAV etc etc. It STILL works in W10 and as it connects to Gracenote for getting CD info then you've got decent tagging info already done for you.

Winamp will also rip the physical CD -- I abandoned physical CD's long ago -- I kept the ISO images of them on HDD. You'll probably see the CD as track1.cda etc. Winamp will rip it for you.

Otherwise it's a bit of a kuffuffle --you can tag manually with mp3tag or similar -


Not sure if this link still works. Note the program is Donkeys years old but probably abandonware now.

Winamp PRO Free Download

The Free version should still be around too -- but ripping speed is limited.

Once you've got the tracks all nicely tagged then you can use software to create a new physical CD if you need to - I think there's loads of Linux free ones for creating Audio CD's from ripped tracks.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Thank you all for your help. I think we are going to buy some software or freeware. I'll give WinAmp a try, sounds like a fun challenge.