In a message dated: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 02:18:42 EST
John Abreau said:

>The CD audio format doesn't support any meta-information; it's just a big
>spiral track of audio data. The applications you're referring to tie into
>a volunteer-generated database of track information out on the 'Net;
>essentially they compute a hash of the audio data, then use that as a key
>in a database lookup. The track info is sent in from many users around the
>'Net, and has been building up for years.

Hmmm,

I could've sworn there was a cd player which was able to do this that 
I used to use way back when... But now that you mention it, I guess 
you're right.  I must have had to edit those track lists manually.

Oh well, thanks!


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