On Thu, May 22, 2008 9:16 am, Karl Cunningham wrote: > Lan and others, > > I found the cddb database and server. My memory isn't as good as it used > to be -- it is not PHP on a web server. cddbd is written in C and is > apparently a standalone server. You can get it from: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9704 > > The database is over 7GB and is stored on disk as one file per database > record, organized in 11 directories by genre. The record files are named > with the hash created by examining a CD. This version of the database, > dated 6-30-2006, contains about 2 million records (files). When tarred > and bzip2'd it's 477MB. I've put it here for anyone who wants it: > http://www.keckec.com/cddb.tar.bz2 > > I never tried to get the server to run. > > Karl >
Karl, Thank you for the research. My inclination is not to try to mirror the DB, because I only want to steal data from it. Let me explain my app. Not because I'm a goodie-2-shoes, but simply because I like the bandwidth, my primary source for music wavs-mp3s is my purchased music CD collection. These are easy to rip, but give me track names sorta like track-cd-001.wav. Obviously, each CD gives the same set of names. I found that the progie cdstatus with the syntax "cdstatus --cddb" would (if I had the internet connected and the CD in the drive) hit the freedb DB and return a parseable text dump which had the names of the tracks associated with their track number. Being an inveterate home-roller, I hacked a tcl script that did this and renamed the ripped wavs to things like "the_chipmunk_song.wav." The alternative was to do this tediously by hand. The script worked like a charm. Life was bliss. Now that script no longer works. <sob> So let's look at the *goal*. I want to be able to rip my home CDs AND rename (or have automagically named) the resultant tracks. I can do this if I can get my proggie back to working, and I can do this if someone else can tell me about another way. I ain't proud. Now that my family had discovered that I can do this, it's yet another case of "why can't you do it faster?" ;-) -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
