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Using CD Text

This document summarizes the information that can be included in CD-Text metadata such as title, performers, songwriters, and more. It notes that not all specified CD-Text features are supported, such as certain packet types. The text information is written in a specified character set and language. CD-Text is specified using an XML file and written according to the CD specification for CD-Text mode.

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Using CD Text

This document summarizes the information that can be included in CD-Text metadata such as title, performers, songwriters, and more. It notes that not all specified CD-Text features are supported, such as certain packet types. The text information is written in a specified character set and language. CD-Text is specified using an XML file and written according to the CD specification for CD-Text mode.

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Using CD-Text

Using CD-Text
The following table summarizes the kind of information that is supported by Rimage’s implementation of
CD-Text.

 Important! Unless noted otherwise, each field of the table can apply either to the entire CD or to an
individual track on the CD.
Data on the CD is marked with special codes identifying the type of information present. This allows CD
players to identify the type of data.

Information Type Notes


Title
Name(s) of the Performer(s)
Name(s) of Songwriter(s)
Name(s) of Composer(s)
Name(s) of Arranger(s)
Message(s)
Language Entire disc
Character Code set Entire disc
Disc Identifiers Entire disc
Genre Code (note 2) Entire disc
Supplemental Genre Text Entire disc
UPC/EAN code Entire disc

ISRC code Track only

CD-Text features not supported


The Rimage implementation of writing CD-Text does not support a number of features of the CD-Text
specification. The CD-Text data is not written to the Program area of the disc.
The following packet types (shown by packet type indicator) are not supported as part of the CD-Text
record written by Rimage ($ indicates a hexadecimal value).
$88 – Table of Content Information
$89 – Second Table of Content Information
$8D – Closed information of content provider

Format of text information


Each CD-Text record will initially consist of one language block . In a language block, all of the CD-Text
data characters are from a particular character set in one language. The strings and textual information is
written to the CD in the same language and character set. Available character sets are 7 bit ASCII, ISO
8859-1, and Music Shift JIS–Kanji. The ASCII and 8859-1 sets use only one byte per character (single
byte). The Music Shift JIS–Kanji character set, used for Japanese, uses two bytes per character (double
byte). Using single-byte format will provide a user with twice as much space to write CD-Text data as
double byte.
Each field of text information is written as a character string. Each string consists of a series of characters
followed by a terminator. The terminator is a single null code for single byte, and a double null code for
double byte.
The Genre Code file is handled as a binary value in the CD-Text record on the CD.

2000076_A 
Using CD-Text

The Disc Identifiers field, although a text field, will not be written to the CD-Text unless the ISO 8859-1
character code is specified.
 Tip: It is recommended that CD-Text strings be less than 160 characters. The software in Production
Server will support more characters but there could be problems reading entire strings if the
recommended limit is exceeded.
CD-Text information will be written to the CD according to the CD Specifications for CD-Text Mode
Description, Chapter 5.8 of the Red Book version 1.0 dated September 1996. The format follows the
mode specified for the lead-in area of the disc.

Specifying CD-Text
A file written in XML-format is used to specify the CD-Text information, see CDText DTD for details.
This file must be readable by the Production Server at the time any production order for the CD-R is
processed.
The CD-Text file specifies the language of the CD-Text. The CD-Text is written using single-byte
characters for English and European languages, and double-byte characters for Japanese.
The path to the CD-Text file is specified using the current production order. The XML order DTD is
modified to allow the name of this text file to be specified. An additional optional attribute is used on the
XML Production Order to specify the CD-Text file.

 2000076_A

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