@jcspro - that's only if you are using a CD that is not to Red Book CD standards. A typical audio CD does not have song titles embedded; only CDs that go beyond the Red Book standard. CD-Text is the format; but it is by no means the standard audio CD.

Back to Kirsten's question - the reason that retailers want the typical UPC bar code is for inventory and point-of-sale tracking / shipping / etc. They really don't care if your lyrics are included or not with your CD.

Now, they do want to be your file download distributor of choice - so there will be a need for tagged files in that regard.

Regarding tagging: no need to buy any special software for that. You can use Windows Explorer to tag files. You can even 'batch' the tagging process by highlighting all the files in a folder, right click for 'properties', click on the 'Summary' tab and enter in Artist and Album information, year, etc. Then you can do the track name on the individual tracks.

Also, Windows Media Player lets you do this in the 'library' function.

I'm referring to Windows XP SP3 (what I'm currently running) and WMP 10.

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