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Lee Revell , on Wed Dec 07, 2005 [02:46:32 PM] said:

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> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:18 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:

> > 	How does one read the MCM number and any other non-audio data

> > from a music CD?  I want to build a MP3 server for our house and

> > definitely do not want to manually enter data from the art work in the

> > CD box.

> >

> > 	It is my understanding that one can retrieve the MCM catalog

> > number and match it against a data base to turn that in to an album

> > name and song titles.  Is this correct?

>

> Yes it's called CDDB and any decent music player should have built in

> support.

>

> XMMS does talk to the CDDB right?  If not we are a lot further behind

> than I thought...

>

> Lee

	Hi;
	Sure it does. The fancier ones of the breed will even download

cover art for you. (eg. Amarok) Last week, the LWN 'grumpy editor'

series was about music managers:
http://lwn.net/Articles/161233/

(scroll down quite a bit)
	The comments mentioned something that might be interesting

for mp3 serving:
http://www.musicpd.org/
	Its a networkable music playing daemon that has a dozen

or so client front ends, web, curses, command line, etc.
	I see that the OP was able to get some CDDB lookups, but

since Im here, Ill mention the util 'cd-discid', and 'cddb-tool'

which is part of the 'abcde' package, a command line tool for

ripping and encoding.
Paul

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