Car stereo misreading CD information

[Papazita]

I just pulled out the Ágætis byrjun cd from Sigur Rós to play in the car, thinking it would make a good soundtrack to all the cold frosty ice & snow.
My stereo however, displays all the artist/album/track information for Ani DiFranco's Evolve album, which is something I don't own and have never listened to, and was released almost 5 years after the Sigur Rós.

That was...weird. How did that just happen?

 

[Winslow]

Sounds like the wrong info was encoded onto the disc. Computer screw-ups happen.

That, or you need to call a guy to check on your car...

 

[DirtDog]

You probably need to replace your turbo encabulator.

 

[MonetBass]

What vehicle? My car, an Infiniti, uses an over-the-air service to identify CD track information (not that I've ever played a CD in my car). Sounds like said service has the wrong info.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Was it a CD you burned yourself?

 

[JKos]

The information isn't on the CD itself. An outside service is used to identify the CD and associated data. Sometimes it gets it wrong.

 

[Alkali Ike]

The information isn't on the CD itself. An outside service is used to identify the CD and associated data. Sometimes it gets it wrong.

The information is almost certainly on the CD. But with “connected” cars, they might use something like Shazam to ID a song, ignoring what the CD info says. My Audi does that with radio station music. It’s actually pretty cool.

 

[JKos]

The information is almost certainly on the CD.

Nope. CD Text never took off because very few players were ever made that could read it. Once the CD format was in full production, it was never found beneficial to change it to include data like album title, track name, etc.

 

[Alkali Ike]

Nope. CD Text never took off because very few players were ever made that could read it. Once the CD format was in full production, it was never found beneficial to change it to include data like album title, track name, etc.

Hmm. Well I stand corrected.

 

[Papazita]

What vehicle? My car, an Infiniti, uses an over-the-air service to identify CD track information (not that I've ever played a CD in my car). Sounds like said service has the wrong info.

It's a Jeep Compass.

Was it a CD you burned yourself?

Nope.

The information isn't on the CD itself. An outside service is used to identify the CD and associated data. Sometimes it gets it wrong.

That's probably it. I do have Sirius service as well, so yeah.

 

[JKos]

It happens when ripping CDs, too. Like in iTunes. Sometimes it mis-identifies the CD and you have to change it all.

 

[5StringBlues]

 

[pie_man_25]

It happens when ripping CDs, too. Like in iTunes. Sometimes it mis-identifies the CD and you have to change it all.

I always input that data manually when ripping, I didn't even know software could do that automatically.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

IIRC the identification can be thrown off by silly things, because it does something basic like "precise length of the first track" or some such rather than an in-depth check. There was a hullabaloo a few years back because some singer (operatic??) was caught out stealing some other singer's recordings (IIRC the manager was doing it without her knowledge, the singer was not directly involved in the scheme) because the CDs were being auto-identified as the singer the songs were being stolen from. Not plagiarism of the tune, outright "she went into the studio and recorded, and the manager was swapping in some other vocalist's work and pressing it as hers." Folks had been amazed at how long her voice lasted (she was not young, and had been a legitimate talent before sleazy manager "extended" her career.) I can't find the details at the moment.

My car has several (commercial) CDs it can't identify, and another couple it gets wrong. I don't worry about it too much.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Nope.

Try opening the CD in iTunes and see what it says.

 

[basscooker]