> 
> I understand about not accepting inexact matches, though I think that
> should ultimately be a user choice. I've now tried four CDs, two gave
> the track listing and the other two did not, as they had inexact
> matches. It was just my luck that the first CD I tested on was an
> inexact match.
> 
I had thought about inexact matches but I kept getting about 20 hits
most of which were wrong.  I can make it a user option - it is only a
few line of code as all the heavy parsing work is done.   

I'll also add CD-Text to raw track info. 

> 
> Oddly - but this is a CDDB issue nothing to do with CDPlayer -
> "Raising Sand" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss came up with several
> sets of entries for the tracks. Evidently it is listed more than once
> in the database.
> 
Firstly, CDDB discid is not very good and it can come up with multiple
exact matches but different CDs - essentially any CD with same no. of
track and total no. of audio seconds. The calculated checksum to
uniquely identify CDs is very weak.
Secondly, CDDB has a database per genre (about 10-15 genres). There can
only be one entry for Discid per genre. However often after a search
there is an exact correct match in each genre - so again you can have
multiple exact matches each for the right CD but from different entry
author (i.e. possibly  10-15 exact matches one per genre).  I add the
CDDB genre in square brackets.


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