Reg artwork, only the cover art is in the DDP no? Additional artwork such as a CD booklet are usually distributed separately? That's how I did it anyway but I suppose you could add multiple cover art pages for MP3 but don't remember if that was available in Hofa. I had my band sign off on DDPs but I just burned CDs from Hofa for them which is the same thing. Hofa, also has a distributable player but you really don't need that unless you want to send DDPs to clients et al to sign off on. Obviously the other great thing about DDP, and one of it's primary purposes is that what you burn from it as a test CD will/must be identical to what is released via replication/duplication which is a lifesaver because it takes a lot of room for mistakes, and responsibility off of you - AKA if the DDP is correct, any distribution mistakes aren't your fault. By properly authoring the DDP you are covered and the publisher can extract what they need for each distribution target. Meaning CD text is one thing, MP3 and cover art is another and so on. Meaning use the DDP as your distribution medium so that they can take that and extract meta data accordingly. As far as meta data, enter all that manually in Hofa so that it exists as needed. Hofa Pro 7 Mastering and Burning Software (Download) Programme for mastering and creating Red Book audio CDs and DDP images App with integrated, automatable HOFA IQ and system effects as well as support for VST3 / AU plug-ins Plug-in chains can be saved as presets Extensive metadata handling such as ID3 tags, CSV support, etc. Once you are done with all the arrangement etc in Hofa, you can export the DDP, but there is also an option right there in Hofa to burn a CDR for testing. Most people who embrace the computer with a media player app will download the 24 bit version of the album that comes with metadata. It is what it is but I wouldn't worry too much. If you don't do that, one of your customers eventually will - and this is what leads to seeing typos in song titles when that happens. This must be uploaded to these websites when you release the disc. ![]() Music Brainz, Gracenote) that look at the track count and track times and match up the info to the album. Most standalone home disc players and all media player apps will NOT be able to read the '+ text' part.Īrtist/album names and track names that are seen on computer media players do not come from the disc itself! There's this kludgey system that uses one of a couple online database websites (eg. This extension is ONLY supported by a handful of older hardware disc players though. ![]() Redbook CD + text format supports artist name and track titles ![]() Redbook CD format supports no metadata of any kind
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