titles and artist of audio-CD

[video-phile]

Hi! I hadn't played an audio-CD (*.cda files) on pc for long. Yesterday I noticed that wmp9 doesn't show artist and titles; just track 1, track 2 etc. I wonder if this is normal. I played the CD with another software (nokia) and it did display the titles. Anybody has an idea?
Thanks

[AlanHK]

Audio CDs don't have any information about the artists, just the music.

However, some players can check the specs of a CD -- the exact track lengths, for example, and use that as a "fingerprint" and look it up in online indexes like CDDB, and then display the information about the album.

I don't know if WMP has such an option, but that's how other players do it.

[Alex_ander]

.cda is not a file, it's Windows' file-look imitation of what it recognizes as CD track. Any information of CD tracks can only be written as CD-Text option (some CDs have it and only some players/programs read and display it).