Is there a way to put music from an Ipod onto the 30G HDD? What I've been doing is burining music from iTunes on the CR-RWs and loading music that way and it's kind of a pain. Plus Gracenote sucks...

 

There probably is a way, but I'm sure it's very hard to figure out. I ended up burning 100+ CD's that I already have on my mp3 player in order to put into my car... As far as getting titles to transfer and show up, check your burning software to see if there is a way to edit the CD as far as artist, album, track listings, etc. I use Nero and it is under the file menu - then compliation info. Your burning software should be similar. It took me about 50 albums before I figured this out... before I was renaming each after copying over.

 

thanks for that info about renaming. Thats going to save me a LOT of time.

 

I use itunes to burn CD's and the labels and everything turn out perfect!

 

That's what I've been doing too but it won't name the more well-known bands but it'll name the more obscure bands...it's weird. Plus I think anything after 2006 isn't in Gracenote either which sucks....

 

What are your settings in iTunes? I can save the music to the server but Gracenote does not see the titles or artists?

 

there's a setting to include CD text when burning in Itunes. The MMCS will choose CD Text over Gracenote for track information.

 

^^care to elaborate on where this setting is? I did a search on iTunes help but couldn't find anything and I couldn't find anything in any of the menus either. thanks!

 

Found it:

Now You Can Burn iTunes Audio CD - With Text! [from www.smalldog.com]
Have you ever noticed that when you play certain CDs in your car or home stereo, the CD, track and sometimes even the artist name will show up on CD player’s display?

In my experience, only wide-release CDs from top artists such as Bob Dylan or the White Stripes have this text information.

Not all CD players can decode and display CD text information on their displays, but many can. I’ve known for some time that the LCD display in my Prius could display this information, and I often wished I knew how to burn CDs that could take advantage of that feature. I listen to a lot of music, but I often don’t know the names of specific songs.

I recently discovered you can burn these informative disks in iTunes 7.2. iTunes may have had this feature for many generations, but I don’t remember seeing it.

It’s easy to use iTunes to burn CDs with the encoded text artist name, disc name, and/or track name. To do this, launch iTunes 7.2 or later (though this feature may appear in earlier versions of iTunes), and browse to iTunes > Preferences in the menu bar. In iTunes Preferences, click on Advanced.

Notice the “Disk Format:” session. Make sure “Audio CD” is selected. Next make sure “Include CD Text” is selected.

Click OK, and you’re ready to go. Next time you burn a CD, the text artist name, disc name, and/or track name will be included with the audio. Compatible car and home CD players will show it.

Now, I wonder what other cool / useful features are hidden in plain sight in OS X…