CD-Text Usage (to copy CD-Text from master CD): cdda2wav -D 6,0 -vall -B # To extract audio information cdrecord dev=6,0 -vv -toc # To extract CD-Text information and then cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -dao textfile=cdtext.dat -useinfo *.wav or cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -raw96r textfile=cdtext.dat -useinfo *.wav If the CD-Text information contains more CRC errors than cdrecord can correct, you need to reload the CD and to re-read the CD-Text information from the master disk. Writing of CD-Text is supported for all drives that support CD-Text in SAO write mode and for all drives that support to write in RAW/RAW96R mode (use -raw96r in this case). NOTE: not all writers that support MMC SAO mode support to write CD-Text in this write mode. If you have a drive that does not support CD-Text but supports RAW/RAW96R mode use this mode as in RAW/RAW96R mode the drive does not need to know about CD-Text. This way even old drives like the Plextor PX-R 412C will write CD-Text. NOTE that cdda2wav will read CD-Text and fill in the CD-Text fields in the *.inf files if vou use -vall. The new cdda2wav option cddb= allows you to tell cdda2wav to retrieve CDDB information from freedb.freedb.org. cddb=0 means ask if ambiguous, cddb=1 means take first entry. The information in this case is filled into the fields in the *.inf files. Creating a CD with CD-Text based on CDDB information from freedb.freedb.org: Tell cdda2wav to fetch data from freedb.freedb.org, call cdda2wav -D 6,0 -vall -B cddb=1 # To extract audio information/fetch CDDB data and then call cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -dao -text -useinfo *.wav or cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -raw96r -text -useinfo *.wav If you like to create your own CD-text data for a CD use the following method: First extract all tracks with cdda2wav -vall (see above), then edit the *.inf Files and add album and song titles. Now call cdrecord as if the *.nf files contain CD-Text information. Note that it is recommended to use less that 160 characters for a single string.