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From: AV3 on 23 May 2010 22:11
Until the most recent version of iTunes, whenever I inserted a CD not
previously run on my computer, iTunes/Gracenote attributed a title to
the disc and titles to each track. I could change those titles, and each
time I re-inserted the disk, those titles would appear on the disk and
its tracks, as well as in iTunes.


Now, iTunes retains all titles and changes, but the disk itself sits on
my desktop entitled "Audio CD" and its tracks only in sequence "Track 1,
2, etc." Is there a way to restore titling to the disk itself?


I assume this new behavior "protects" me from temptation to steal
something from a disk I purchased but which I only serve as a custodian.
Actually, I find an anonymous "Audio CD" on my desktop inconvenient, as
I now have to open iTunes to learn its identity.


This is the only Mac forum I have time to follow, but I will reluctantly
accept advice to pore over other specialized forums with hundreds of
messages that may have already dealt with this complaint.


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From: Gerry on 23 May 2010 23:00
In article <htcn8c$99e$1(a)news.albasani.net>,
AV3 <arvimide(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

> Until the most recent version of iTunes, whenever I inserted a CD not
> previously run on my computer, iTunes/Gracenote attributed a title to
> the disc and titles to each track. I could change those titles, and each
> time I re-inserted the disk, those titles would appear on the disk and
> its tracks, as well as in iTunes.
>
>
> Now, iTunes retains all titles and changes, but the disk itself sits on
> my desktop entitled "Audio CD" and its tracks only in sequence "Track 1,
> 2, etc." Is there a way to restore titling to the disk itself?

This behavior is due to the age of the CD not to iTunes. Older CDs
weren't encoded to handle CD Text, newer CDs are.
From: David Empson on 24 May 2010 01:30
AV3 <arvimide(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

> Until the most recent version of iTunes, whenever I inserted a CD not
> previously run on my computer, iTunes/Gracenote attributed a title to
> the disc and titles to each track. I could change those titles, and each
> time I re-inserted the disk, those titles would appear on the disk and
> its tracks, as well as in iTunes.
>
>
> Now, iTunes retains all titles and changes, but the disk itself sits on
> my desktop entitled "Audio CD" and its tracks only in sequence "Track 1,
> 2, etc." Is there a way to restore titling to the disk itself?

The naming of CDs and their tracks in Finder is controlled by a set of
database files stored in your preferences folder. iTunes updates this
database whenever you use it to rename a CD or tracks on that CD, or it
gets the CD data from Gracenote. I expect iTunes also uses this database
to display the CD and track names.

(Note that tracks already imported into your iTunes library are a
separate issue - once imported, there is no direct connection between
the data for the CD and the imported files and they can be edited
independently.)

This mechanism still works fine for me with the latest version of
iTunes, so it isn't the version of iTunes which caused it to stop
working for you.

If your CDs are not being named correctly in Finder, I expect one or
more of your CD database files are damaged.

Having a look at my own preferences folder, it appears there are
actually four files involved:

CD Info.cidb
CD Remote Programs
CD Remote Programs Plus
CDDB Preferences

From memory, the second and third ones date back to Mac OS 9, and I'm
not sure if they are still important, but they were the ones being used
by Mac OS 9 Finder to display CD names on the desktop. All four were
updated when I inserted a new CD and got iTunes to load its details from
Gracenote.

You could try quitting iTunes, moving those files out of your
~/Library/Preferences folder, logging out and back in again (or
relaunching Finder), then insert an audio CD and see if it works now
(you'll probably have to fetch its names again).

> I assume this new behavior "protects" me from temptation to steal
> something from a disk I purchased but which I only serve as a custodian.

It isn't "new behaviour" due to iTunes. It is something wrong with files
on your computer.

> Actually, I find an anonymous "Audio CD" on my desktop inconvenient, as
> I now have to open iTunes to learn its identity.
>
> This is the only Mac forum I have time to follow, but I will reluctantly
> accept advice to pore over other specialized forums with hundreds of
> messages that may have already dealt with this complaint.

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