Re: cddb: i'd like to add that feature...
Mikko Nummelin <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2003, Kim Lux wrote: > I wish that cdparanoia would access the cddb and get the title of all > the songs it rips. I've got a ton of directories with track1, track2... > in them. I need a utility to convert the trackX filenames to the song > titles. Better yet would be if cdparanoia did it for me when it ripped > the tracks. There are other tools using cdparanoia as a tool for ripping, but who separately query the cddb. One example is grip http://nostatic.org/grip/ I think that cdparanoia should itself have the basic functionality to do the ripping itself in a flexible and robust manner. In fact, when anyhow using CDDB, be aware that some of the data it provides is false. For example I remember cases where track names were in wrong order (ABBA's More Abba Gold) or referred to an entirely different record (Rolling Stones' Aftermath UK version). It might be that CDDB now recognizes those disks right but there might be plenty of other examples of CDDB malfunction because of initially wrong data provided into their database. A very good habit is to change the names track??.wav _immediately_ to more descriprive ones like this: $ mv track02.wav 02_Nights_In_White_Satin.wav $ mv track05.wav 05_She_Loves_You.wav etc. The numbers in front is a convention I use, because that has at least two advantages: (1) easier to burn those in intended order to a bland CD with cdrecord, (2) when converted to mp3 or ogg (titles being the same with .wav replaced by .ogg or .mp3), a playlist can be formed very simply with a command like $ ls *.ogg > The_Greatest_Hits_Album.m3u following the same pre-intended order. > I'm wondering how cdparanoia will work with kernel 2.6 when it comes > out. I suspect a few changes are going to be needed. Try it out with latest kernels in 2.5 series, that will perhaps give some pre-information if such things are needed. They have tried to keep some standards in CD-reading and writing functions for a long time. Take a look at cdrom.c and cdrom.h in the kernel source for example. You see that they haven't changed a lot from even late 2.1 series ... Mikko Nummelin --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Paranoia homepage: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to '[email protected]' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.