On Wed, September 19, 2007 10:05 am, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> My noodling (can't call it research) shows that cddb music CDs do >> have a TOC on the disk. The utility cdstatus will spill it. >> >> The internet access theory is nice, but doesn't explain why >> stand-alone devices (like a car CD player or a laptop off the net) >> can see the titles. >> >> I've also found that some CDs don't have this TOC, although they >> often do have a header with the album name, artists, etc. > > This is part of a not-completely-ubiquitous "standard" format (a Red > Book extension[1]) called CD-TEXT that allows textual data regarding > individual tracks or the disc as a whole to be store directly on the > media. However, it hasn't been utilized for all discs due in part to its > spotty implementation in hardware players; in addition, software players > can often access CDDB/FreeDB even if they support CD-TEXT, which makes > the on-disc textual data redundant. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text > >
Thanks. This discussion is helping. In fact, for my implementation, my app _will_ have internet access, so I should scope out this CDDB/FreeDB thingie. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
