Lan Barnes([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:37:01PM -0700: > Can anyone point me to a utility, URL, or code snippet that would allow me > to put a music CD in a linux box and read the names of the song tracks? >
There isn't a utility to get the information from the disc because the title information isn't there. There's only the raw sound data. The reason your CD player can show you the titles is because it queries an external database. CDDB is one of them, but IIRC they started trying to make money off of the data that people had given them freely. The other one (and the one your CD player probably uses) is FREEDB. One command line utility that I've heard can do this is surfraw. It's a CLI frontend to tons of different web search engines. http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/#elvilist gives the full list of supported engines which includes debpackages, ebay, freshmeat, amazon, pgpkeys, RFCs, IMDB, lastFM... you get the picture. I can't test it at the moment, but this or a utility like it is your best bet, I think. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
