[plug] MP3 tagging and CDDB ...

[Bradley Browne]

Or you could buy/hire/borrow the CD again and query using that  :-P

Trevor Phillips wrote:

> "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:
> >
> > Insert CD into drive
> > cda -dev /dev/cdrom on
> > cda -dev /dev/cdrom toc > ~/tmp/tocfile
> > cda -dev /dev/cdrom off
> >
> > The you a nice file that contains the name/artist/tracks for the cd in the
> > drive.   If it is unsure about the CD it will ask :)
>
> This still requires the original CD, though. I'm sure I've seen one that did
> not require the original CD...
>
> > > Hmmm. Or I could write a smart Perl Script to just connect to the cddb website
> > > and pretend to be a client, parsing the results...
> >
> > Yeah BUT then you need to understand the CDDB format/protocol etc etc ... cda
> > does all of theat for you.
>
> No. The CDDB website. ie; http://www.cddb.com/
> Script would browse around the site, search for the right CD, and derive the
> track info from search results...
>
> Knowing the CDDB protocol still requires the original CD (I've looked into
> what is required). Doing a Websearch just requires HTML parsing and some
> smarts.
>
> Altho another solution would be to download the entire CD database and do
> local interpretations of the info... Data would not be updated tho...
>
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