On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 14:46 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:18 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > 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? > > Yes it's called CDDB and any decent music player should have built in > support. > > XMMS does talk to the CDDB right? If not we are a lot further behind > than I thought... 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.
