02-01-2007, 02:17 PM
Assuming that you have set your Burning preferences (in the Advanced options of the iTunes pref's) to burn as a regular audio CD and assuming that she has an always-on Internet connection...
The most likely answer is simply that however the tracks were ripped or burnt, the lengths of the tracks don't match anything in the Gracenote database.
If you're buying from the iTMS, be aware that music companies rip the tracks themselves and upload them to the iTMS. Depending on the ripping app, some brief silence may be added at the beginning and end of each track -- that's all that it would take. (Surprisingly, they seldom make the music files from the original masters.
) Similarly, your burner may insert a bit of silence here and there, too.
...And AIF is a "wrapper" -- the CD-DA music is stored in a "raw" format that AIF and WAV are particularly suited for when that data is copied to a computer. CD audio discs are not "AIF music cds."
Try this: after you burn the CD and before you send it away with your wife, insert the disc back in your drive and when it shows up in iTunes, confirm that the track information is intact and correct and then select "Submit CD Track Names" from the Advanced menu.
See if your wife then finds that the information appears on her computer when she inserts the CD while at work.
The most likely answer is simply that however the tracks were ripped or burnt, the lengths of the tracks don't match anything in the Gracenote database.
If you're buying from the iTMS, be aware that music companies rip the tracks themselves and upload them to the iTMS. Depending on the ripping app, some brief silence may be added at the beginning and end of each track -- that's all that it would take. (Surprisingly, they seldom make the music files from the original masters.
) Similarly, your burner may insert a bit of silence here and there, too....And AIF is a "wrapper" -- the CD-DA music is stored in a "raw" format that AIF and WAV are particularly suited for when that data is copied to a computer. CD audio discs are not "AIF music cds."
Try this: after you burn the CD and before you send it away with your wife, insert the disc back in your drive and when it shows up in iTunes, confirm that the track information is intact and correct and then select "Submit CD Track Names" from the Advanced menu.
See if your wife then finds that the information appears on her computer when she inserts the CD while at work.