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LiquidCode · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 9:49 pm Post subject: CDDB

Is there a dll or is there one that can be easily made
to be able to access the CDDB for audio CD's?

Thanks

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hey I found a way to do it with VDSIPP.DLL and VDS. I'll try to find the source code I made and I will post it Wink

LiquidCode · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:31 am Post subject:

GREAT! I'll be waiting by the computer.. Very Happy

Thanks a bunch!

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Get the code here : http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=336

Enjoy!

LiquidCode · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks.

Tommy · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 12:35 am Post subject:

Too bad, I guess CDDB has died since recently. Sad

Seems like many software using CDDB, including VDS made ones, will no longer function
now. There will be an error "433 Authorized client". Although I haven't read into this
yet, I'll assume that CDDB's current owner requires payment for use of the database.

Tommy · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 1:05 am Post subject:

Please don't bother using CDDB anymore, I'm sure most VDS apps wouldn't get
approved by the company owning it, and most of their conditions are totally
unacceptable.

For now the best alternative seems to be freedb: http://www.freedb.org/
Switching to this one is very easy as it supports the CDDB 1 protocol besides the
freedb protocol. Just use the server freedb.freedb.org instead of *.cddb.com.

Tommy · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 1:23 am Post subject:

If you want to see freedb in action you can try the following ancient, slightly modified
script:

http://www.vdsworld.com/files/cdorg.dsc

It also requires vdsinet.dll, if you don't have it yet here's a quick download link:

http://www.vdsworld.com/files/vdsinet.zip

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

This is a great example Tommy. Very Happy

The CDDB code in the open source section I posted a while back was using a freedb server. I will add the link to this thread.

Wink

Tommy · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 12:32 am Post subject:

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice you were using freedb already. Wink

Also about my code, I think it's probably the same really as your code. My code is very
old and probably contains some bugs.

marcelo · Contributor Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 151

Hi. I noticed FREEDB is not longer available. Crying or Very sad

I think the only alternative is Musicbrainz. Does anyone have any experience about it?

marcelo · Contributor Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 151

Sorry for the repost.
I'm trying to calculate the CD ID to search in Musicbrainz database but i can't do it.
Full instructions are in the following link:
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Disc_ID_Calculation
I can get the full TOC readings but i can't get the right ID after Hash and base64 encoding.
I don't know the right way to do it because i don't understand de C programing code correctly.
I'm doing encodings using online services before trying to do it with VDS.
Can anyone help me?

Sorry for my english

marcelo · Contributor Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 151

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