maybe somebody knows more than i (think) i do ...

for christmas, i made some cd's for some friends. it was the first time i used a long wav file and a cue sheet to mark my tracks and gaps. it was a lot of fun and i enjoyed it. best of all, my friends loved the cd's i made; they were mixed in adobe audition and i crossfaded all the tracks. it sounded great.

anyways one of the problems i ran into was using cd-text to embed the artist/title info onto the cd. eac said that my burner was able to write cd-text but none of the info that i included in my cue sheets shows up (it may be there, it just doesn't show up on any cd palyers).

so i thought of workaround. a little data session that would have a file that would include all that information (and maybe later have a little flash file that displays the info or something). the problem, as i see it, is that one of the people who i gave a cd to uses mac os. i'm wonderring if i have to make 2 data sessions, one windows and one mac or could the mac read the windows data session. i was thinking i would use something open plattform like xml for the data and i would have to make an exe and hqx out of flash. can i put them on the same data session or do i have to make seperate ones?

anyways i got just some questions about this cause it's new to me.

anyone who can offer help in the form of an example cue sheet or online documentation would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

-B

The reason for the CD-TEXT not showing up could be because the CD players don't suppor CD-TEXT.

Why not just HTML the information AFAIK a Windows data session will still show up on a Mac (well it did when I was using Macs during university/high school). Much simpler and portable as well as you know many computers these days have a browser.


Regards

"drive is able to write CD text"-option checked ? (Determines if CD text is written. Text must be shown in EAC's main window after writing.)
Did you use audio CDRs from audio CD recorders for your computer writer ? Did you use a suitable speed ?
These things can cause high error rates (C1) during reading of the written CDs. My CD-text capable audio player often can't show the CD text on audio CDRs which I had written with my computer writer. "often" means for the same CD; several TOC readings.
And there's a world of other problems when writing audio CDs, of course...

The format on data CDs is exactly the same no matter what program or operating system it has been written with. Can be used on windows, linux, mac... (For windows/linux compatibility I know it for sure.)

Same data session is fine. Modern Mac's can read Joliet standard discs, but if you're at all worried about it, stick to 8.3 filenames on the disc. Should not be a need to worry about it though.

I'd put the info you want into a nice HTML web page, with graphics and album art and such, and let them open that up in a browser of their choice. You can even use Windows AutoRun capability to do this magically by creating an autorun.inf and adding this to it:

[autorun]
ShellExecute=index.htm

Where "index.htm" is the webpage you have on the disc. This will cause their default browser to open when they insert the disc. Add an "icon=icon.ico" line to give the disc a special icon in My Computer.

Obviously, your HTML will need to use local references (img src=img\test.jpg instead of img src=d:\img\test.jpg) because you don't know what their drive letter will be. But it's pretty easy to do, all in all.

But please, be kind and avoid EXE's and flash and such. Yes, it's pretty, but it's very annoying too. Much nicer to give them a simple informational display and let them use their own software to play the music.

otto42,

if i were to use an exe, though (or an hqx under mac) can i put them in the same data session? my guess is windows will just handle the hqx as an unknown file, and vice versa with the exe on mac.

thanks again for feedback