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    CD track info

    Using Win XP -Pro...
    I'm aware that when you right click and "Explore" a commercially produced audio cd you will see only links to the actual tracks and not the track names themselves. Is there a program or a way to view the actual description (name) of the individual tracks? (Of course I'm aware of iTunes and/or Window Media Player, but I'm not looking to play the tracks.)

    Hope this is clear. Thanks for looking.

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    With reference to my initial post and am attempt to clarify it...

    I have music files on my hd, with tracks listed as:
    1980-05-07 CORNELL -D1 #1.wav
    1980-05-07 CORNELL -D1 #2.wav
    1980-05-07 CORNELL -D1 #3.wav
    etc...
    When I burned these tracks to a CD the actual songs were shown in the track listing. Such as:
    Jack Straw
    Tennessee Jed
    Cassidy
    etc...

    My question is how can this information be read without using iTunes?

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    If you burn them as data, then the full track names stays the same and any computer would read the track name you give it.

    Copy/move from one drive/computer to another and nothing changes.
    Burn as a audio cd and all track info is gone.

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    Not all audio cds have the track names written as cdtext, where the info is stored in a subchannel or in the leadin area of the disk.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text

    If that information has not been written then many players will look up an online database (gracenote, freedb etc) by calculating a (nearly) unique id for the cd and passing the query to the database, though in some cases you can get a mis-identification.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB

    For disks you burn yourself, in all probability the content of the disk will have been added to an internal database cache.

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