CD-TEXT specifications ???

John Clement wrote:

CD-TEXT is a handy way of writing music CDs, but there are some problems
that are not anwered by most of the manufacturors literature.

What is the limit on how much text can be written? The specs that I can
find say 21 lines of 40 characters each
Is this per track or per CD?

I tried to burn 56 tracks and the text cut off at line 37 in the middle of
the line. It looks like it is per CD, but there might be an artificial
limitation on my software.

Are there any good inexpensive (or even free) players that will show the
tracks on a CD burned with CD-Text? MS Windows Media Player only gets names
from the internet and does not us CD-Text.

The general only burning software that I have encountered that actually does
CD-Text is RecordNow MAX. Magix Audio Cleaning Lab also burns CD-Text, but
does not support some ot he options that RecordNow uses.

http://www.ncf.ca/~aa571/cdtext.htm
(Having trouble with the link now.)

I love this program. I found it about 2 months ago and have it as my
default CD Player.

Mark

There is another free CD text and digital player here that may do
one
or two things that the other doesn't but it still doesn't have what
you're looking for. Unless you can figure out some way to make it
do
extra things but I've never tried.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~maid/index_e.html