cddb/freedb for existing collections of wav files?
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Oct 5 14:28:35 UTC 2006
James Leifer wrote:
> "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?
I don't know if it's _right_, but it's what I always believed. I'm
absolutely certain that cddb does _not_ rely on the ISRN - though perhaps
it may use it if it's available.
--
derek
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