Actually, there is a format of CD that has track information on it. I'm
not certain what it is, but my DVD player makes mention of this, and I'm
certain it doesn't do a query of the CDDB databases.
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Michael Stutz wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
>
> > If the free software / free music community can devise a format, we
> > could have track information, related graphics, etc. on our free music
> > CDs. Imagine a player that told you the track *name* being played,
> > instead of just the number, because it is physically on the disk.
>
> I believe there is at least one free player that does this; maybe someone
> familiar with it will explain it better than I can -- I think that what it
> does is maintain a database somewhere on the net and when you play a cd it
> looks at the track info and compares it with this db to determine what cd
> you're playing, and if it's in the db it'll output the name of the track,
> etc. If it doesn't have this particular disc on record, you can type in the
> info yourself and it will add it to database ... and with mp3 files, I
> *think* you can specify a track name and copyright info when burning the
> file, which would do what you want.
>
> Multisession CDs are very easy to make, too -- you just specify a data track
> (usually track 1) and then specify the audio tracks.
>
>
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