CD-Text stores additional information on a audio CD. The information consist usually of the album, name, song name, track info and artist. Many computer music players like Winamp or MediaMonkey can read CD-Text and display the information. Instead of playing track 1 the user would actually see the track name and related information.
Windows Media Player never officially supported CD-Text which is where WMPCDText comes into play. The plugin for Windows Media Player 10 or 11 is capable of reading and displaying CD-Text information in Windows Media Player.
The Windows Media Player plugin comes with an option to automatically load the CD-Text information if present on the CD. The alternative would be to right-click on the tracks of the CD to load the CD-Text information into Windows Media Player.
This obviously only works with CDs that make use of CD-Text information. Many burning software programs can burn CD-Text including Nero, ImgBurn or iTunes. The Windows Media Player plugin will run on Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista with administrative rights required on XP and 2003.
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Not being able to see CD info in windows media player is one of the reason I never use it. This looks useful but still doesn’t make me want to start using wmp.
I read your post and use media player to burn audio cd’s. I want my car radio to be able to show the artist and song. What product would you recommend for me to accomplish this since media player doesn’t?
K3B (The KDE disc burning utility) has supported CD-Text for something like five years now. I cannot believe that this feature was missing from Windows Media Player.
no thx!
it´s look like a trojan in this file:(
Antivirus Version Last Update Result
Antiy-AVL 2.0.3.7 2009.10.23 Trojan/Win32.Banbra.gen
Jiangmin 11.0.800 2009.10.24 Trojan/Banker.Banbra.aky
full report on this site:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/b20c4a4116b5006f97f0a97d5c0d0e138eb91f94fd70e2a9f016f7e6f1f40e00-1256477558
It is very likely that this is a false positive.
Hi, I’m the author of WMPCDText and I can assure you that these were false positives. If you scan the file at VirusTotal yourself, you will see that newer definitions of these antivirus programs don’t detect the trojan anymore.