Re: Indexing (Cataloging) AUDIO CDs

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:27 -0500, D Bera wrote:
> > CDDB.  In short, create a "signature" from the audio data and use that
> > signature as in index into a database that users populate.
> 
> In the CDDB way, information is fetched from the internet - right ? I
> am looking at local solutions. Isnt there any information contained in
> an audio CD itself ?

A few CDs have "CD text", which provides the album name and track names,
but the overwhelming majority don't, and CDDB is the only way to get
these.  This is what every CD playing application uses.

Joe