Technical Information about how Media Center collects CD and Track Names

For a CD that Media Center has never seen before:

1.

Media Center first checks for "CD-Text" data on the CD itself.

2.

If the information isn't there, it checks the cdplayer.ini file in the Windows directory.

3.

If it still can't get the information, and the user has enabled "on-line CD lookup", it tries to go on-line and search the YADB on-line database for a match. This can cause a noticeable delay and will fail if you are not connected to the internet.

4.

If it can't find it on-line, it asks if you if you want to fill in the info and submit it to YADB. If you don't fill in the information, the tracks will be named "track 1, track 2", etc.

5.

Once it has info for an audio CD, Media Center stores it in it's own database so the next time you insert this CD it just grabs all the information instantly from it's own database without any YADB or cdplayer.ini checking.