The first step is to get the DISCID. The second step is to look u pthe discid in a db of albums.
The database in use is probably CDDB. This used to be a free system that everyone entered data into. Now, there are copyrights and restrictions on use. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@rds!
http://www.gracenote.com/gn_products/cddb.html
freedb is a gpl'ed version of the db. I am not sure how complete the freedb version is (it looks to have about half the albums of cddb), but the licensing terms are much easier to choke down.
http://www.freedb.org/
Jerry Johnson
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When you put some CDs into your PC, windows media player goes out to a
database and usually gets a lot of info about the CD to display in the
window of the player. Does anyone know if it's possible to access that
info using ColdlFusion MX? If so, how?
I have a radio station library to catalogue and it would be a LOT faster to
have some automated way to just put the CD in a machine and have it
automatically retrieve the info then store that data in our SQL Server
database. There are thousands of CDs to catalogue so if we can get even 80%
of them picking up the data this way rather than being entered manually it
would be a great boost to the project.
Cheers
Mike Kear
AFP Webworks
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://afpwebworks.com
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