Could be meta-data in the file, or separate from the file. Your player may also contribute to you not seeing the data if it won't access it from the file itself. Many players have their own method or program for adding all that information and don't access it from the file, or wherever on the CD because of that. There's a number of reasons it could be.
Like most of you probably have, I have a lot of old music CD's (and some not so old) that I want to copy to my computer. However, whenever I load the disk, no matter what program that I uses, all that shows up on my player is track 1, 2, 3 etc and no information as to the song itself.
I'm not wedded to any one player system - ie I-tunes, I just want to be able to create a play list based on the music that I have already bought.
So my question is, is there an simple way to force the song and artist info to transfer?
Thanks in advance.

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