Has anyone else noticed that when you burn CDs off of itunes that the album information does not port?

Has anyone figured out a way around this that doesn't involve sitting in the car and manually editing each track?

ugh

 

You have to select the option in iTunes to include CD text. That will give you the file name info you want. It's in preferences > advanced > burning.

 

Additionally, I have found that when you create the playlist in iTunes it does something like "Artist - Album". In that case MusicBox imports the album as "Artist - Album"; instead just edit the playlist name before you burn to be the album name. I edited about a dozen album names in a -30º garage on MusicBox before I got smart.

 

Yep, I'm aware of enabling CD Text but it doesn't seem to capture the album info. It seems to capture the title of the playlist and then the artist and track title. Problem is...not every track in my itunes library is part of a full album. So i don't want to have to burn a whole cd just to capture one song. So one playlist may contain tracks fro 10 or 15 different albums.

When they get on the music box, they all appear as one album (the title of the playlist)

I'd go the route of creating multiple playlists (titling each playlist with the name of the album) but I don't think itunes allows you to burn multiple playlists on to a single cd.

 

Unfortunately, CD-Text standard doesn't really provide a separate field for album for each track. I believe you can have a disc specific title field, and then each track has it's own title field, but no album field. CD-Text is not like ID3 tags on mp3s and due to constraints in terms of storage location, it is nowhere near as versatile. That's why you get one album (the CD title itself) and not an album per track.

 

Does anyone know how to update the Gracenote DB in teh car?

 

http://www.infiniti.com/music-update/