Does CD-Text show up on iTunes?
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This might be a bit confusing, the song and artist names that show up on iTunes, are they the same as the ones that show up on car stereo and certain CD players? There are 2 different methodologies here: CD-Text and ID3 Tag. CD-Text is hardware based with track information embedded on the physical CD. ID3 Tag is metadata that stores song, artist, album, genre, year, composer and other info about a particular song.
iTunes and other software audio player reads ID3 Tags from database such as Gracenote to retrieve song information, while certain car stereo, home stereo and DVD players can read CD-Text.
Both types of codes can exist on the same CD, to add CD-Text you need to have a CD writer and burning software that are capable of writing CD-Text. To edit ID3 Tags check out this iTunes Gracenote guide.
