[Ardour-Users] isrc and related

[nick mainsbridge]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:46:56 +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm about to release my CD (made with linux software, including ardour)
> and it's pretty much do-it-yourself all the way.
> 
> I was told that before delivering my audio to the company that's gonna
> produce/burn/print/press the CD, I have to put an isrc code "into the
> audio". I just played a bit with ardours export and it turns out there's
> something in the location dialog that seems to handle just that
> (aparently I have no clue what isrc is).
> 
> So now I have an ardour session with all track lined up starting, ending
> and fading just the way they should + made a CD markers range for each
> track.
> 
> How does it work?
> 
> 1) Is isrc a character sequence and what's it doing?

yes its a mix of (capital) letters and numbers.
you have to apply for them in blocks, and they are given to record labels.
each work has a separate number.

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/isrc.html



> 
> 2) Would I get a single isrc-code for the entire cd, and type that in
> each field or would I get a seperate one for each track?
> 


separately for each track.


> 3) How about the composer, performer and title fields for each range?
> Should they be filled in, are they used for CD-TEXT, and what is that
> exactly?
> 

they are for CD TEXT.


> 4) Regarding locations. I read
> http://ardour.org/files/manual/ch-exporting.html which suggests I should
> make a CD markers range for each song. a) how about start of a track and
> end of previous one, should they be on top of each other?

latest versions have a separate cd markers strip.
the docs are out of date, but this is the only difference.


> b) upon opening the locations dialog, I got an error, aparently because
> my first track started too early. Should I place the marker at 2secs and
> drag the audio there also?

for a redbook cd, yes.