I burned a cd using my itunes music, inserted the cd into the G's CD player and recorded the MP4s on its hard drive. I then performed the steps to download the list of songs without title information to the CF card and loaded them into the gracenote program and ran the search. It said that "Gracenote could not find any title information." All the music was from widely known artists so what gives? Does gracenote only work with original cd's and not Itunes MP4's? Does anyone have a trick to get the titles loaded for MP4s?

Thanks.

 

Go into Itunes and look under the menu:

Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Burning

Mack sure that "CD Text" is being included in your burns. This should solve the problem. This is how I'm ripping CDs to the HD and have had no more problems once I turned on that toggle

 

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

 

I changed the setting to add cd text and now the car says disc read error when I use that cd. I tried reburning other cd's and songs with that cd text box checked and I get the same disc read error. The music box plays the songs when I don't have that box checked but doesn't pick up artist and song name. Is there another setting I have to change?

Thanks.

 

As I understand it Gracenote doesn't identify individual songs it identifies entire albums. It looks at number of tracks, track times, and total time to figure out which cd it is.

For Gracenote to ID a cd you burn it has to be a complete copy of a commercial cd. If you create a mix cd it won't be able to identify the individual songs on the cd.

 

Not true. I've burned several mix playlists from Itunes and the car has had no problems identifying the songs correctly. I've also burned half CDs of live concerts say that it has no problem IDing. The CD is named as the playlist name. Maybe this is where the 'CD Text' tag comes in? Dunno, but this has worked for me with 4 seperate mixes.

 

The car is using the CD-text information that Itunes burned on the CD not Gracenote. Itunes names the CD and all the songs. My old car could also identify the cd and songs using CD-text and it didn't have a gracenotes database. Try burning a mix cd without CD-text turned on and I'd bet money the car won't be able to identify the CD or any of the songs.

Here's a quote from gracenote site that explains how it works. It first has to ID the CD.



"For example, when you insert a music CD in your computer, the software player application on your computer uses our service to first identify the CD, and then display the artist, title, tracklist, and other information to you instantly. Most commercial music CDs do not contain any of this information on the CD itself. That's why we created the service. "

http://www.gracenote.com/music/corpo...et=what/page=1

 

Ah ok gotcha, I didnt realize there was a difference. I guess if its one of the few things that I can get to work with this stupid system I didnt pay attention to how I got it to work. Thanks!

 

So dcmidnight,

When you burn your cd's on itunes with "cd text" turned on, do you then change the setting on your g to read "cd text" instead of CDDB (gracenote)? Maybe that is where I am going wrong. I just read in the car manual that you can set the music box to read CDDB or cd text. I am going to give that a try.