Finding Date Stamps on Music CD-Rs

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I have some audio CD-Rs I created about 5 or 6 years ago. I'd like to know exactly when they were burned, month/year.

I have Windows XP and I've used several programs for burning them. A few may have been Windows Media Audio, most were in Sonic or Roxio.

I can't find anyway to tell WHEN the CDs were burned. It's not like a data CD. These CD-Rs were made to be listened to in my CD player, which predates audio CD burning. As such, the music files don't provide any info for their creation.

Anyone have suggestions to tell when they were created? I'm in the process of labeling them and want to keep them in chronological order. Is it possible, or is there some software to help me find the a time stamp for the month and year of their creation?

Looking at the Audio CD (Redbook) format as specified by Wikipedia, I don't believe any explicit 'time of creation' information is saved on audio CDs.

However, there is an 'International Standard Recording Code' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... rding_Code - which does include a 2 digit 'year of registration', which maybe your burning software filled in with the year you burned it.

This thread - http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-co ... de-cd.html - lists various programs that read ISRCs, some of them free.. Apparently Media Player Classic will do it.

Happy searching

Thanks mglosenger, though I think those website apply to professionally-pressed CDs. CD-Rs seem to rest on whether or not the program used to burn them decided to stamp the date, and if that date is the correct one or some default.

I'm bumping this again to see if anyone else has some other suggestions.

But thank you.