[iTunes] Re: submitting cd track names

Todd Masco itunes-list-local at babayaga.org
Fri May 16 15:33:05 PDT 2003


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



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