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

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 14:46 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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...

but here is the greatest thing of all:

freedb.org (and probably cddb too) do *not* use the MCM number because
there are duplicates. instead, it does the absolutely *brilliant* thing
of creating an ID for the CD based on the length and number of tracks,
which is almost guaranteed to be unique.
Received on Thu Dec 8 00:15:06 2005