Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>om>, on Wed Dec 07, 2005 [02:46:32 PM] said:
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
Hi;
Sure it does. The fancier ones of the breed will even download
cover art for you. (eg. Amarok) Last week, the LWN 'grumpy editor'
series was about music managers:
http://lwn.net/Articles/161233/
(scroll down quite a bit)
The comments mentioned something that might be interesting
for mp3 serving:
http://www.musicpd.org/
Its a networkable music playing daemon that has a dozen
or so client front ends, web, curses, command line, etc.
I see that the OP was able to get some CDDB lookups, but
since Im here, Ill mention the util 'cd-discid', and 'cddb-tool'
which is part of the 'abcde' package, a command line tool for
ripping and encoding.
Paul
set(a)pobox.com