Random names showing up on never-burned CD-Rs?

[ragbor]

I don't know if it's an iTunes issue or not, but I (and other friends) have occasionally put in an unused, commercial, un-named CD-R and it appears on the desktop with a name.

Tonight, I burned a CD-R of a single song using Toast and when I put the CD-R in my G4 drive it showed up on the desktop with the name "Vioma." When imported into iTunes it's listed as a song named "Ykksinkertaisesti," artist "Rohto" and album "Voima."

I googled it and sure enough, "Rohto" is a Finnish band and "Ykksinkertaisesti" was a single by them in Feb of '03! The is no audio on the CD-R except what I burned on the silver labeled "GQ Great Quality" CD-R 52X 700MB/ 80 min disk I bought in a 100# spindle at Fry's.

Anybody know what's up with that?

[crizdee]

Hi,

I suspect your computer is accessing gracenote from the internet and getting these names associated with the number your CD burner is giving to your CDR.

[iamstudios]

There was another long post on this in the Post Production forum, check it out:

CDDB topic

[ragbor]

Thanks to all. And imperium, you nailed it. It's the CDDB causing it. All should read the link you provided. Much thanks for the info.