[linux-audio-user] Music CD Data Base
tim hall
tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Mon Dec 12 17:07:19 EST 2005
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 20:24, Paul Davis was like:
> > XMMS does talk to the CDDB right? If not we are a lot further behind
> > than I thought...
Erm, I'm not sure that it does directly ...
I figure I must have some old version as it still uses gtk+-1.2 ;p
> 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.
I guessed that due to the number of times it's got it wrong, amusingly.
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cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
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