Re: Can I reconstruct CD ripped with k3b?

"James" <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.k3b
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, October 30, 2008 3:10 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:39 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, October 30, 2008 2:22 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> In general does k3b save enough information when I rip a CD (audio
>>> as FLAC, nothing else special chosen AFAIK) to reconstruct a new
>>> physical CD such that if I burned the CD that it could be ripped again
>>>  accessing cddb and get the correct info again?
>>>
>>> If not done by default what do I need to get k3b to save in the
>>> future so that I can do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>> FLAC is lossless so you can do that.
>> You could make an iso so you don't need to rip it each time.
>> You can mount isos on your file system.  :-)
>>
>>
>
> Yes, clearly I could do that in the future. I'm mostly curious what
> goes into the CD structure to make k3b consider a CD looks like retail
> product and then it goes to get cddb data.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

You want to know how CDDB is able to recognize a specific cd?
I *THINK* it just looks at the number and length of tracks.



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