[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 .-- -... ..... .- --. --..