Played a newly received CD today on my Bolero. Actually first time I've used the player, rather than SD card.

Titles came up as Track 1, Track 2 etc. Now I've copied it to the SD card, titles appear!

Is this correct?

I may be wrong, but it depends on the CD.

For example if you create a audio cd from itunes with cd text it will show the correct titles, and assuming you used a pc or similar to copy from the cd to your sd card it almost certainly downloaded the track names and added them to the sd card copy.

I dont think (may be wrong) that new audio cds all contain cd text on them.

CD text is an extension of the standard for Audio CDs known as Red Book. There are 2 places that the data can be stored maybe Bolero only looks at one of these locations?

Also not all publishers of CDs adhere to the specification (especially if they're implementing some kind of copy protection) so it could be that the particular disk has a problem.

Finally it may be that Bolero doesn't support CD text at all, though I'd be surprised at that.

Not all CD's have CD-Text which is needed for the bolero to display the track data. They tend to limited to those CDs produced by Sony and its associated companies. Other CD's will just display track 1, 2 3 etc.

MP3 is where the headunit will come into its own, where it displays album and track info from the ID3 tags of the stored data files.

I've only had one audio cd display text...it took me by surprise as I'd just presumed it didn't have it at all after 8 months of text-free cd audio!

I've got about 300CDs in my collection and my Marantz Hi Fi CD player also has CD text, out of that many CDs there are only a handful that display anything other than the track number on the CD player's display. It was just never really adopted by the industry.