From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 20:59:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8B937B415 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A6A2B721; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 05:59:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 640A6859; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:59:37 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:59:37 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "David S. Jackson" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Track Indexes for CDs Message-ID: <20010926135937.F99595@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , "David S. Jackson" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010925234109.A20952@sylvester.dsj.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010925234109.A20952@sylvester.dsj.net>; from dsj@sylvester.dsj.net on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:41:09PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:41:09PM -0400, David S. Jackson wrote: > When you stick an audio CD into your CDROM, how does the device > know the names and artists? Not all devices are connected, so The device doesn't, it's your software which fetches the information from the CDDB (I think http://www.cddb.org is a good place to start. Replace .org with .net and .com if it doesn't give you info) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message