Comment by ssl-3

Amusingly, my 13-year-old Honda does that -- even though it doesn't have CD Text support.

The factory stereo has a recent copy of Gracenote's CDDB built-in.

It also automagically rips and compresses Red Book CDs to to internal storage.

And it is smart enough to play a CD seemingly like regular -- with random track access and such -- while concurrently [and rather quickly] ripping the entire disc.

It's mobilized piracy at the most invisible form.

But yeah: CD Text is/was neat, at least in concept. I never got a chance to use it; none of my audio hardware ever supported it. (Supposedly, it also supported song lyrics.)