I've been wanting for a while now to find or get a CD which would allow the stereo in the car to show the album title and track information on the MFD. There are very few CDs out there that come encoded with text from the publisher or rather I haven't found one yet.

So, the next logical step was making a copy of an existing CD with a quality duplication/burning software package. I'm a Mac guy so Toast is my chosen package. And as luck would have it, Toast does support CDText. As a side note for techies, if I were to use iTunes, I would have to convert to mp3 and then back to CDaudio, which isn't what I wanted to do. It is a little lossy, so it isn't a true duplicate. I wanted a true clone of an existing CD, with correct track spacing, but with the text added.

So, one I took an original, and prior to the copy/burn Toast prompted me for a track name and I asked that it go to the Internet and get the track listing off from the CDDB. The CDDB filled in all the track names and provided an album title. Commence burning.

A few minutes later out comes my freshly burned copy of my original CD, hopefully with text. Into the Prius JBL stereo and there it is. CDtext album and track titles. Very cool. I'm not really bothered by duplicating my CDs for this purpose because I would prefer not to use and keep my originals in the car anyway.

Yet another thing to amaze your friends with.

It has been said:
Hybrid drivers come in 3 flavors, greenie, techie and cheapie. Pick any 2.
2005 Prius, Melinium Silver over gray, package 5 (AI)