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Re: [PLUG] CD-Text to CDDB conversions
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On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:05, Art Alexion wrote:
> Yeah. I have a lot of CDs not in the database. One thing that seems to
> work is opening the CD with kscd which reads CD-Text. It will report that
> there is no database entry for the CD. Then open the CDDB editor in kscd.
> It is already filled in with the CD-Text data. Submit it to freedb.org.
> This also creates an entry in ~/.cddb.
> Two problems. I think there should be a direct way to do the conversion
> and I think it may be an abuse of freedb.org to submit stuff that no one
> else has.
Why would it be an abuse to submit new things? If that were the case, how
would new entries ever get into the db? (cf.
http://www.freedb.org/en/faq.3.html#22)
> Google was not my friend on this one. I assumed there must be some perl
> thing that would read CD-Text and output a cddb file.
I hunted through cpan for a while but didn't find anything that would.
> After all, the
> capability is built into kscd. It just doesn't seem to write a local file
> without submitting to freedb.org.
Then go ahead and submit. :-)
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