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louiesanchezdj
Asked: 2018-05-10 09:04:21 +0800 CST

How to record an audio CD with track information in Brasero?

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I use the following process:

I select the tracks on my PC and add the files to Brasero. Brasero then burns the CD correctly but, when I play the CD in a commercial CDJ Pioneer or in another player not on my computer, the name of the track does not appear.

E.g. The Pioneer does not show the name of the artist or the title of the track and only shows "track 1, track 2.....). When playing an .mp3 file it does show additional information though but for .wav or .aiff it doesn't. The audio files are original one, paid for and downloaded from beatport, traxsource, iTunes and similar sites.

So how do I get the additional track information to display on the Pioneer?

brasero audio-recording 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    What you're trying to do is impossible.

    What you're trying to do is very difficult.

    Your CDJ Pioneer player is a combination of CD / MP3 player that can extract the name of the tracks from the lossless information on the original CD or the MP3 files. WAV files do not contain any information except audio and aiff is a proprietary Fruity format that requires Fruity licensing.

    So you could convert the non-MP3 files to FLAC, create a CD Table of Contents using CD-Text and then it'll work on any CD Player, but that's a lot of work!

    But why do I get track information on my computer then?

    Well, your computer is connected to the Internet and uses fingerprinting or has proprietary software (libraries) licensed by the Fruity company so yes, it can display what it thinks it is (and will get it wrong every now and then, though that is rare nowadays)

    Is there something easier I can do?

    Yes, you can convert all non-MP3 files to MP3 and manually add the missing information if said information is not available in the original file format (E.g. WAV) and your CD/MP3 player will just display the information from the MP3 file. Have a look at ffmpeg.

    ffmpeg can be installed using:

    sudo apt install ffmpeg
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