Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>, on Wed Dec 07, 2005 [02:46:32 PM] said: > 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... > > Lee Hi; Sure it does. The fancier ones of the breed will even download cover art for you. (eg. Amarok) Last week, the LWN 'grumpy editor' series was about music managers: http://lwn.net/Articles/161233/ (scroll down quite a bit) The comments mentioned something that might be interesting for mp3 serving: http://www.musicpd.org/ Its a networkable music playing daemon that has a dozen or so client front ends, web, curses, command line, etc. I see that the OP was able to get some CDDB lookups, but since Im here, Ill mention the util 'cd-discid', and 'cddb-tool' which is part of the 'abcde' package, a command line tool for ripping and encoding. Paul set@xxxxxxxxx
