How do I create or check CD-Text on my audio cds

CD Text. Learn about it on Wiki cd text

If you mail us your audio cd, we can make an image file here that preserves the CD Text.

If you provide a zip file with .mp3 files or .wav files, we burn them using your project name as the album title and your file names as the track names.

CD Text can be used to populate internet databases that programs like iTunes and Windows Media player use to identify an album.

CDText is barely used these days.  It's best if you get a copy of your CD made from TrepStar (order a copy for yourself), then use the online databases gracenote or Allmusic to submit your CD.  This is how most media players (iTunes, Windows Media Player) gets information about your CD. 


You need to upload the track and CD title information to the free service at gracenote.com.  You can also add this data on your own computer through iTunes.  Then the titles of the tracks and the CD title will appear when the CD is uploaded on any computer to iTunes or Windows Media.

To view the CD-Text on any cd you have, including those we make for you, you need a free program like VLC Media player or audiograbber (Audio grabber).

1) VLC Media Player download page https://www.videolan.org/index.html




2) Audio grabber download page:   http://www.audiograbber.org/ http://www.audiograbber.org/download.html or Audio Grabber Free download

Audio Grabber looks like this: Your CD-Text will not be displayed yet.  Look below for details:

By default, album and track titles are “grabbed” from internet databases such as freedb. Important: To check your discs CD-Text data, choose the menu setting “CD-Get Track Names from CD-TEXT”

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