Re: [linux-audio-user] Music CD Data Base

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 21:46:32 EET

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:18 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 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?

Yes it's called CDDB and any decent music player should have built in
support.

XMMS does talk to the CDDB right? If not we are a lot further behind
than I thought...

Lee
Received on Thu Dec 8 00:15:05 2005

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