CD-Text

Album info standard

CD-Text is metadata embedded on audio CDs that allows compatible players to display track titles, artist names, and album information.

Before digital music files carried their own tags, CD-Text was the primary way to see song information on a car stereo or home player: This disc has CD-Text, so the track names show up automatically.

metadata

track

Path or monitored route

  • titleFormal honorific or name
  • artistMaker of creative works
  • albumUnified collection of recordings

performer · songwriter · composer · disc · UPC · genre · copyright · arranger · message · identification

technical

subchannel

Division within larger bandwidth

  • lead-inPreliminary portion before main content
  • lead-outGuide toward exit
  • TOCChapter listing abbreviation

session · encoding · specification · bytes · descriptor · pack · block · format · sectors

software

burning

Combustion in progress

cuesheet · display · reader · editor · import · export · iTunes · retrieval · database

playback

display

Presentation for viewing

scrolling · readout · dashboard · receiver · changer · recognition · support · enabled · feature

Opposites
audio format era

CD-Textvinyl

Synthetic resin plastic

streaming · digital streaming · digital download · MP3 · Spotify

Family

CD, text, texts, textual, textually, texture, textures, textured, texturing

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Rated G