Help with Music not listing track names from CD

I am digitizing some Vinyl and Tapes and made a CD from a commercial tape album using Vinyl Studio. When I used that CD to put the music on another Mac, it imported the music but not the track names. If I display the content of the CD the track names are there. The possible causes might be: a. I have in Music settings checked the box, download track names from internet. I don’t know what would have happened if this was unchecked, i.e. would Music import all the data from the CD? Someone might know the answer. b. If that isn’t the explanation, in converting analog to digital the track times are likely not identical to the times on the internet so the album isn’t recognized as the correct album on the internet. So again is it possible to get the track information directly from the CD in Music. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Mac Studio, macOS 14.6

Posted on Feb 15, 2025 05:18 PM

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Feb 15, 2025 11:31 PM in response to spinosaurus

Hi,

It is a long time since I converted vinyl to CD. From memory, if the CD-R matched a commercial available album, Gracenote often found track details. Otherwise you would have to enter metadata manually.


I recall that if the CD-R was created on your computer, it would display metadata whilst in CD drive of that computer but would not appear on other computers or CD players.


Jim

Feb 16, 2025 07:51 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

That’s interesting, that is not the case here I don’t think as the CD-R shows the track names on both computers but the names did not get transferred when I imported them into Music on the second Mac, but they show up on the CD itself. That’s why I was wondering if Music only gets track names from the internet but not directly from the CD. Thanks for your reply.

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