cddb/freedb for existing collections of wav files?

[James Leifer]

"Steve Flynn" <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> writes:

>    How will the lookup program know which CD these are WAV tracks of?
>    When you are ripping a CD and you perform a CDDB lookup, the ISRN is
>    read from the CD TOC and that is used to identify the CD in the CDDB
>    database. Now that you've thrown that information away and have
>    nothing but a big pile of WAV files, you've got no way of telling what
>    that CD was... in essence, you've thrown away all of your metadata.

Hmm... A quick googling suggests that a cddb query consists of the
hash of the lengths of all the tracks on the CD.  Maybe I've
misunderstood, but if this is true then a pile of *all* the wav files
from a single CD should yield this information nicely.

Is that right?

Best,
James