On Jul 6, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Marta Edie wondered: > I bought through the Mac Music store and downloaded the German > Loreley song. I want to use at a meeting where they show a Rhine > cruise. > I then burned a copy on a disk. i burnt it as audio CD. It came > down in AIFF format. > When I play it back on my iMac from where I burnt it, it shows up > as Loreley and plays accordingly > Now on my iBook as well as my powerbook it shows up as a song with > a wild title and a totally different name of a singer. It, however, > plays the correct song. > What in the world is the matter here? I had this happen once before > with a different recording and it showed a japanese singer even in > japanese script. - that is so odd??? > Apart from that , will this AIFF format now play through a > different CD player ? My iBook is not loud enough and I don't have > external loudspeakers to amplify the sound.
It should work in any standard CD player. Here's my guess as to what's going on with the naming. Ordinary audio CDs usually do not contain information about the song titles or artists. When you put a music CD into your Mac, iTunes grabs some information off the CD and goes online to the Gracenote CD database to try and figure out which CD it is. (It's kind of like identification by fingerprinting.) When you burn a music CD on your iMac, the "fingerprint" is stored on the iMac, so the iMac can identify the CD. If you go to another machine, it contacts Gracenote which, of course, doesn't know anything about the CD you burned. It sometimes returns the information for another CD that's got a similar fingerprint. Some Japanese singer's CD has the same fingerprint as your burned CD. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060706/ec01b051/attachment.html
