Burning CD from a CDLX: Any way to prevent WMP from displaying bogus track info?

Question

I burned a CD from a CDLX file using Audition CC. When I play the CD in Windows Media Player, it displays the CD's title as "Various Artists", and displays song titles like "Back Ones Again". Only problem is, this information is completely incorrect. I suspect that WMP is going out online somewhere to get track info, then getting crazy data and displaying it - but I'm not sure. Is there any way of preventing this from happening when I burn the CD in Audition? The problem seems to happen whether or not I enter info under the Audition's Properties window. (I haven't tried messing with the Metadata tabs yet.)

One other thing: Oddly, If I play a CD in WMP that I burned two years ago, also using Audition CC, it doesn't display the bogus info - only "Unknown Artist", and Track 1, Track 2, etc - which is greatly preferable to the phony info. But I can't find any difference between that old CDLX file and the one I'm using now.

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

I'd say that it's worth looking at the metadata associated with the file first. As for what WMP does - well that's anybody's guess; its behaviour for me has varied according to what machine it's on, and how it was set up. There is a possibility that something in the metadata says to WMP - 'look this up on line' - but I'm not sure what that would be. If there's an ISRC code erroneously entered in RIFF info under 'source', that might cause some difficulties but I can't offhand think of any other entries you could make in the metadata that would affect what happens externally.

Ideally we'd need a developer comment about this, but I think that they're avoiding this new forum format until it's settled down a bit...

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