| Art Alexion on 9 Dec 2006 05:17:54 -0000 |
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On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:52, Malcolm J Harwood wrote: > 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) Let me clarify. When I say I think it would be "an abuse to submit stuff that that no one else has", I mean stuff that I put together that no one else owns and would not ever need a cddb entry for. I don't mean "stuff no one else has [yet submitted]". > > > 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. :-) -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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