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Old 06-14-2011, 12:27 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by musikai View Post
Don't know if it's helpful or if I'm misunderstanding "CD-TEXT".

When I was once creating a CD with CD-Text I did it using cuesheets and for that I found a very good explanation (but only in german, sorry):
http://mitglied.multimania.de/big_sleepy/cuesheet.htm
Thanks, but this is another usage of CD-TEXT. Many CD burners use CUE files to describe CD tracks and also CD-TEXT metadata. They are in textual format, so anyone can write them by hand.

But DDP spec does not cover CD-TEXT, DDP only includes the CD-TEXT file. And this included file is not the textual CUE file, but must be in the actual binary CD-TEXT format that is written on the audio CD.

The format for the binary CD-TEXT files is documented in the Red book specification, which unfortunately is not for free. As I cannot afford to buy this Red book, I can only get the information by scraps of documentation over the internet and some reverse engineering.

But, as both binary CD-TEXT file and textual CUE file are intended to be written on the audio CD, they both include the same metadata, as is TITLE, PERFORMER, SONGWRITER etc.

(P.S.: I can understand German quite well)
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