Audio CDs burned using Nero Burning ROM 6.6.1.15d or different burning applications do not seem to display album, title, and artist information when played in applications that rely on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003’s redbook.sys to process and play the audio CDs. (An example of such as application is Windows Media Player).
When a professional pressed music CD-ROM or a CD-R 1:1 copy of the professional CD-ROM is played in an application that relies on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003’s redbook.sys to process and play the audio CDs, album, title, and artist information is displayed.
According to Microsoft Corporation Knowledgebase article 297756 (KB297756), [redbook.sys] does not support CD Text, among other metadata. (“problemâ€)
It seems that the problem is worked around in the professional pressed media. The fact that the assumed workaround is able to be replicated via 1:1 copy leads me to believe that there is a way to represent usual CD Text information (album, title, artist, etc.) such that it will display for players that do not normally read CD Text (like Windows Media Player.)
How can audio CDs be burned with descriptive metadata information like album, title, artist, etc.; be playable in an application that relies on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003’s redbook.sys to process and play audio CDs (such as Windows Media Player); display metadata information in such applications, and be playable in standalone CD players?