Re: [rumori] MP3s: pay-to-play: CDDB (fwd)


From: Reed Hedges (reedATzerohour.net)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 10:34:59 PST


>CDDB is eerie: it was able to instanteously (in one second)
>identify and label all the tracks on CDs that I was ripping to MP3. Can it
>possibly be able to do this based only on song-lengths? I foresee record

no, it sends the cd serial number (or whatever) to the server, which
answers back with the info. i believe it can do this just through http/cgi,
or througha special protocol.

the cddb option in your music player/ripper is usually configurable.

use freedb.org instead.

see http://www.freedb.org

rh

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