CD TEXT--What is it, and where do I get it?

[McMasters]

I put a new CD in my player and BAM...The CD title, and song titles appear.

What does this process involve?
What programs can do this?
Are they still Red book CD's?

Thanks

[DigiTechSupt]

Audio CD's contain P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W subcode tracks. The Text information you see displayed is written on one of these tracks but is not widly used in the industry. Therefore, I think these CD's still comply with the Red Book standard, but it is up to the CD player to recognize any data written to these tracks (most only recognized the P and Q subcodes).

-I do not know of any software which allows you to access subcode tracks other than P and Q.

Brent

[MasterJ]

Brent is right. CD text not widely used because most CD players do not acces that information.
However, CD Text is usually done @ the plant. It's not something that is widely available during the pre-mastering level.

MasterJ [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Bob Olhsson]

I think Waveburner on the Mac and most of the PC applications now support CD-Text. Many new CD players do.