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Not always. Shockingly (or I guess not shockingly by todays standards) some MiniDiscs have copy protection on the track listing! However a majority of CDs I own
by satysin 7y ago
Not always. Shockingly (or I guess not shockingly by todays standards) some MiniDiscs have copy protection on the track listing! However a majority of CDs I owned with CD-TEXT would happily label everything correctly. This was the reason I used my PS2 rather than my regular CD player which also had optical out but did not do the CD-TEXT.
I have read that CD-TEXT data is not transferred over optical however it most certainly worked for me. I made at least 100 MiniDiscs this way. Perhaps it was something special with how the PS2 did things that was not to the standard? Who knows. I have searched for information but never found anything concrete except for a few others who agreed with me that it did work as they used to do it the same way. Nothing official sadly.
- lxgr 7y agoAmazing bit of information, thanks! This would have saved 12 year old me quite some time. I think I never owned a CD that had CD-TEXT on it, or if I did, I had already given up on doing real-time transfers via my PS2 at the time. A Sony-proprietary extension sounds plausible, given their track record of developing pleasant niche features like this, especially between devices in their ecosystem. (Sonic Stage and Real Player were both horrible, but could transfer a full album in a few minutes over USB.)