On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:07:17AM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:51PM +0000, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Thanks, > > Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, > > that is in the background , while you are on the net for some > > other reason, retrieves db and stores it, because until today, > > I don't consciously remember ever going on the net for db retrieval, yet > > cddb is full of data files.They got there somehow. > > John > > I believe that's what it does. If you play a CD you've never played > before and you're not connected to the Net, Grip won't be able to query > the db server (mine uses freedb), and you should not get the track info. > There's a setting for for it, and I believe you can have it not query > the db. > > But then again, for all I know CDs may contain all that info that Grip > can parse directly from the CD without connecting to a db.
I just read man grip and it does query a db. You can start it with "-l" option and it won't query the db, or in config you can uncheck Perform CDDB lookup automatically. Todd
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