Some people are confused about CD-Text. They think a disc has to be mastered with CD-Text in order for the information to show up in a consumer’s iTunes when they put the CD in their computer. Not at all. You only need to submit the data to CDDB (using iTunes) and in a day or less the info is there for everyone. This is a service a good mastering house will supply to their clients.
So what about the poor sap who needs to have the data show up in Windows Media Player? It turns out the WMP looks up data from All Music Guide. So you’d figure there’d be a mechanism for doing this sort of thing for WMP.
You’d figure wrong.
AMG will add any product submissions we receive to the database as long as they are commercially available in their country of release. The best way to ensure that your title receives full coverage is for you to send us one copy of the product along with any relevant promotional materials, such as press releases and artist photos.
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Remarkable, no? One more reason iTunes owns this market.