[linux-audio-user] Music CD Data Base

        How does one read the MCM number and any other non-audio data
from a music CD? I want to build a MP3 server for our house and
definitely do not want to manually enter data from the art work in the
CD box.

        It is my understanding that one can retrieve the MCM catalog
number and match it against a data base to turn that in to an album
name and song titles. Is this correct?

        I also want to do this without any X applications. The
computer is good enough for command-line shells, etc, but is only a
400-meg Pentium with 65 megs of RAM.

        I am home-brewing this server which will probably end up being
a collection of shell scripts and C applications written by me but I
realized that I wasn't sure how to let the CD's own data speak for
themselves.

        While ripping tracks using cdparanoia, I frequently see a
short track numbered 0 which is not a song but appears to have some
sort of binary data. CD's I burn or some commercial CD's do not have
this special track. What is it?

        Thanks for any answers or suggestions. This is one of those
times when Google searches turn up a boatload of all the wrong
information, probably because I didn't use the right search terms, but
nonetheless, I haven't found what I was looking for yet.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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Received on Thu Dec 8 00:15:05 2005