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gunofason · 27th June 2009

Hi Everyone - Hope you're all having a fun and prosperous summer so far! I just got an email from a client forwarding a rejection notice from their replication plant due to the CD-TEXT on the master. Here's the note from the manufacturer:

Your master has CD-Text data that contains a block with a Language Code value of 0. The language code tells the CD player the language in which CD-Text will be displayed. This problem is caused by the utility that created the original CD-Text data. If you have not changed your authoring program, this error has likely always existed. The severity of this error is minor, because most players will default to English. However, there have been reports of playability problems.

They've told my client & the label they need to remake the master there and include the correct language code for $XXX.XX. I used Waveburner to make the master and there's no option to change this on our end. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen this option in any premastering software we've ever used. This is the first time our master has been rejected for CD-Text and we must've made thousands of masters with CD-TEXT to date (each one tested here at our studio). Any thoughts or suggestions? At first glance, it kinda sounds similar to a region code on a DVD disc. I didn't realize the same was true for Audio CD's as well......

Thanks!

27th June 2009	#1
gunofason Gear Head Joined: Mar 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 41 Thread Starter	Master rejected from plant due to CD-TEXT Language Code... Hi Everyone - Hope you're all having a fun and prosperous summer so far! I just got an email from a client forwarding a rejection notice from their replication plant due to the CD-TEXT on the master. Here's the note from the manufacturer: Your master has CD-Text data that contains a block with a Language Code value of 0. The language code tells the CD player the language in which CD-Text will be displayed. This problem is caused by the utility that created the original CD-Text data. If you have not changed your authoring program, this error has likely always existed. The severity of this error is minor, because most players will default to English. However, there have been reports of playability problems. They've told my client & the label they need to remake the master there and include the correct language code for $XXX.XX. I used Waveburner to make the master and there's no option to change this on our end. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen this option in any premastering software we've ever used. This is the first time our master has been rejected for CD-Text and we must've made thousands of masters with CD-TEXT to date (each one tested here at our studio). Any thoughts or suggestions? At first glance, it kinda sounds similar to a region code on a DVD disc. I didn't realize the same was true for Audio CD's as well...... Thanks!