Can Alcohol copy CD TEXT or not?

Burning Software
#1

Just that. Can Alcohol keep CD TEXT when copying?

Seems that it’s not possible due to incomplete subchannel reading, but just want to be sure. Thanks a lot.

#2

CD-TEXT is stored in the subchannels, so as long as you read them when making the image (audiocd+ profile), it should be OK.

#3

Yes, CD TEXT is stored in the subchannels, but it’s under the lead-in area, and Alcohol seems to just take in account TOC information there (and maybe others, but should care about PMA info too).

The subchannel info that Alcohol reads when in audioCD+ is subchannel info from program area (not from lead in or lead out areas).

#4

well, a few months ago i tried to copy an audio cd with cd-text with alc 1.4.8 just for fun - normally i do this with EAC.
i used the AudioCD+ profile, but the result was a NOT readable cd for my Sony-Standalone-DVD Player (which i use to listen to audio cd’s). i repeated this with some cd’s, it never gave good results, some were readabel, but had wrong timecode, bad gaps between the tracks or whatever…
using EAC on the same drives / media’s gave (as always) 100% perfect backups… :wink:

#5

I tried copying a disc with CD-TEXT with latest Alcohol and guess what. After burning I first checked the disc with CCD5 and it says there is no CD-Text, then I tried to play it in my stand-alone CD player. Not only did it not see the CD-Text, but it wouldn’t even play the disc. Next, I put it back in the pc’s cd-rom and brought up Nero. Nero couldn’t find any CD-Text either.
Microsoft’s Medial player will play the music ok but that application doesn’t even try to look for CD-Text.
There is a definite bug here in Alcohol.

#6

Thanks to all for your replies… I’ve checked the image files from alcohol… There’s no CD-TEXT info inside them, just TOC and ISRC (if present).

ALCOHOL DOES NOT COPY CD-TEXT.

#7

There’s a couple of details on CD-TEXT here:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f52/where-cd-text-stored-116856/

#8

Er, this thread is getting close to four years old . Even though you are the original poster, I doubt people will be that interested after this long so please do not resurrect old threads.