On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:19:55PM -0500, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a message dated: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 02:18:42 EST
> John Abreau said:
> >The CD audio format doesn't support any meta-information; it's just a big
> >spiral track of audio data. The applications you're referring to tie into
> >a volunteer-generated database of track information out on the 'Net;
> >essentially they compute a hash of the audio data, then use that as a key
> >in a database lookup. The track info is sent in from many users around the
> >'Net, and has been building up for years.
>
> I could've sworn there was a cd player which was able to do this that
> I used to use way back when... But now that you mention it, I guess
> you're right. I must have had to edit those track lists manually.
It may be that HDCD's include some data on the disc. I put my
wife's Dixie Chicks "Fly" CD in our Toshiba SD-2700 CD/DVD player, and
the flourescent readout had the name of the CD. HDCD is supposedly
a backwards-compatible minor CD enhancement. It increases the quality
from 16-bit to 24-bit. I'm assuming that some other enhancement must
included the CD title. It seems that HDCD is now a Microsoft
technology.
http://www.hdcd.com/about/index.html
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