Hi everyone

I've had my Columbus for a while now but as it happens I've only recently played a CD in it. It plays fine, but I was a little disappointed to see that no track names were shown on the display and instead all I got was Track 1, Track 2, etc. Is this normal behaviour for a Columbus? I was under the impression that it would have been able to show track names.

The CD was brand new and when played on a PS3, the track names show up fine. My Columbus is a 3T0035680A with f/w 3800 installed. Does anyone know if this is normal? And if not, is there anything I can do to change it (i.e. so that CD track names appear as expected on the display)?

Thanks

Edited 12 November, 201114 yr by slicendice

How many CD's have you tried ? Are they all the same ? Is the firmware up to date ?

All depends how old the CD's are.

Newer ones that have the info on the CD will appear on the screen

The CD I tried was brand new - and it seems to display track info OK on other players.

I'll try some different CDs, see if they are any better...

The last CD I used (the only one actually) showed track info. Not tried any old ones.

Hi everyone

I've had my Columbus for a while now but as it happens I've only recently played a CD in it. It plays fine, but I was a little disappointed to see that no track names were shown on the display and instead all I got was Track 1, Track 2, etc. Is this normal behaviour for a Columbus? I was under the impression that it would have been able to show track names.

The CD was brand new and when played on a PS3, the track names show up fine. My Columbus is a 3T0035680A with f/w 3800 installed. Does anyone know if this is normal? And if not, is there anything I can do to change it (i.e. so that CD track names appear as expected on the display)?

Thanks

CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information (e.g. album name, song name, and artist) on a standards-compliant audio CD. The information is stored either in the lead-in area of the CD, where there is roughly five kilobytes of space available, or in the Subchannels R to W on the disc, which can store about 31 megabytes. The latter areas are not used by strict Red Book CDs. The text is stored in a format usable by the Interactive Text Transmission System (ITTS). ITTS is also used by Digital Audio Broadcasting or the MiniDisc. The specification was released in September 1996 and backed by Sony. Support for CD-Text is common, but not universal. Utilities exist to automatically rip CD-Text data, and insert it into CDDB or freedb.

Source:

CD-Text

Not all disks support CD-Text, most seem not to except those from the Sony stable.

You can create your own onto CD-R disks by ticking the CD-Text box when you come to burn the disk.

I believe both the PS3 and Xbox get the disk data online, so will display track and CD info even if CD-Text is not on the disk.

If your PS3 is connected to the internet it probably is looking the CD up on CDDB or similar, but the Columbus will have to rely on CD-Text. A surprising amount of CDs do not include CD-Text- in fact, in my collection of over 300, there's probably 10 or less that do.

I rip all my CD's in ITunes & add the track names while I'm there, and then save them on the SD card.

Job done.

Dont thiink I've used a disc in the Colombus for months.

I know Gracenote is a massive industry database for artist / song titles.

I rip all my CD's in ITunes & add the track names while I'm there, and then save them on the SD card.

Job done.

Dont thiink I've used a disc in the Colombus for months.

I know Gracenote is a massive industry database for artist / song titles.

The PS3 probably uses Gracenote, which was CDDB. There's also freedb.