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>>> (But then, so should identifying a CD by it's serial number, and
>>> apparently that is a "solved problem".)
>>
>> What do you mean? Isn't the whole idea of a *serial* number that you
>> can identify which one it is?
>
> CDDB works by looking at track lengths and positions. I.e., the
> information in the table of contents that says what sector each song
> starts and stops on. Audio CDs for some reason don't have serial
> numbers, UPC codes, lyrics, or cover art encoded on them, which seems
> like rather a loss to me. (Even stranger to me is that MP3 doesn't
> define that sort of thing either.)
MP3 defines ID3 for storing basic metadata about the track.
I gather the Ogg guys have a special format especially for storing
lyrics... ;-)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Are you sure it's not just reading the track titles from the CD-text? :-P
Yes. If it were, it wouldn't work without the CD text, and the text would
match what's on the CD.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> MP3 defines ID3 for storing basic metadata about the track.
No it doesn't. That was tacked on long after the format was standardized and
popular. Hence the obvious kludginess of the format.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> MP3 defines ID3 for storing basic metadata about the track.
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> No it doesn't. That was tacked on long after the format was standardized
> and popular. Hence the obvious kludginess of the format.
As in, http://www.id3.org/History
They just found a way to make an MP3 player say "oh, I must have picked this
stream up in the middle. I'll wait for a sync flag so I know I'm at the
boundary of a chunk." Other than the need to kludge it into a streaming
medium that wasn't designed for such things, it's actually a pretty nicely
designed format.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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