The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46110   Message #684400
Posted By: DMcG
06-Apr-02 - 06:04 AM
Thread Name: Tech: CD id in Windows Media Player 7
Subject: RE: TECH: CD id in Windows Media Player 7
I don't think CDs contain the names of the tracks - or at least, they didn't in the past. This is why many CD rippers simply display Track 01 ... track 15 or whatever, rather than names.

On your PC, there is a file called 'cdplayer.ini' held in C:\WINDOWS , C:\WINNT or wherever. I have pulled out an extract of mine here

[15DA0B6]
artist=The Chieftains
title=The Magic of The Chieftains
numtracks=12
0=O'Mahoney's Frolics
1=Coolin Medley
2=The Wexford Carol (featuring Nancy Griffith)
3=Marches
4=Boffyflow and Spike (featuring Van Morrison)
5=Celtic Wedding
6=Heres a Health to the Company
7=The Strayaway Child
8=The Iron Man Medley
9=Millennium Celtic Suite
10=Dans Tro Fisel
11=Heuliadenn Toniou Breizh-Izel
order=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

It is this file that Media Player looks at. But this leaves the question of where the names come from in the first place and this is usually CDDB as I suggested before.

You can edit the cdplayer.ini directly to fix problems - You can't really do any harm