submitting cd track names

[Terry Pogue]

On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Todd Masco wrote:

> k wrote:
>> That's right. All CDDB info relates to commercial CDs that have
>> identification codes built into them. How else would they know what
>> album you are trying to help them with? That's why they call it the
>> Compact Disc Data Base (CDDB).
>
> Sort of true.  To nitpick, the code that indexes into CDDB is not 
> actually a unique code on the CD, but is derived from the CD track 
> lengths and number of tracks.  That's why we get multiple CDs with the 
> same code in the CDDB from time to time.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/author/RCAPUTO/CDDB-1.08/CDDB.pm discusses this.
>
> 	-- Todd


A little CDDB mystery. My husband burned a vinyl LP to disk. Gave it to 
me, I put it in my computer, It brought up CDDB and placed the track 
names in. No purchased CD involved just an old fashioned long playing 
record.
terry
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