iTunes Remembers ... (and tells Finder.)
Ted put together a collection of great tunes and gave it to us for Christmas. He called it "Merry Christmas from Ted." In iTunes, you cannot see the track names because no CD has track names, and iTunes cannot identify this CD when talking to CDDB over the internet. (It is a unique CD.)
So you have to play Track 1, Track 2, etc. While playing them, I tried changing the track names and was surprised I could. So I editted the track names, artists, and album title. I then ejected the CD to see if iTunes would remember. It did. iTunes apparently is talking to the Finder, because the CD is now titled and all the track names are listed. Zoom in below to see the effect.
Another pleasant surprise from Apple. That's why the Mac is so much fun... it keeps surprising you by doing what you would want, but not necessarily expect.
Man, that's a good CD! I guess not all of the songs go together that well, but you can skip what you don't want.
Windows' CD player does the same thing about remembering them and, in fact, was originally set up where you would enter everything by hand, but only have to do it once (or until you lose your cd.ini file). But it doesn't integrate with CDDB (I don't think). But there are shareware CD players for Windows that will look stuff up on CDDB and put it into the cd.ini file . . .
Yes! i-tunes has done this ever since the version that was the first version I had on my flower power i-mac. I noticed this right away because it remembers CD names that you have already put in the computer even when the internet is down (so it doesn't have to rescan the web to find the titles of songs and artists). pretty neat.