[wellylug] reading a audio cd via network

[jumbophut]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:41:39 +1300, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> Thanks for the tips.
> 
> Is there a good cli tool that can do batch cddb lookup and tagging of
> the resultant ogg/mp3 files? Easytag is a GUI version of what I want to
> do.
> 

A question for the ignorant (me): how would a tool know what it was
looking for if all it had was an mp3 file?  Does the mp3 file have the
track number and album identifier encoded somewhere in it?

If it did, I suppose you could use mp3info to pull out the necessary
info, then a simple bash script to query freedb or such.

I've found that while running xine, which asks freedb for CD track
info by default, I can run a tcpdump session and see exactly what is
sent by/received from freedb. (I'm talking a real live CD, not an MP3,
so there is definitely an album identifier there, which I'm not sure
of for the mp3.  I use the album identifier thus revealed to create a
cached version of the freedb info, which saves the lookup on
subsequent tries.)

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Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')