CDDB Magic...

From: Adam Cohen (a d a m EMAIL souljazz@souljazz.com)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 22:47:18 MET DST

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    The strangest thing happened to me today. I made a homemade CD from my
    vinyl copy of Shaolin Soul (the compilation with all the Wu-Tang featured
    samples) and inserted it into my computer so I could add it to my CD
    database, and magically, CDValet (my CD catalog program) connected to CDDB
    and received the information for the disc.. I was quite surprised, as I
    didn't expect it to be able to retrieve the information for a home made
    disc.. I mean, when you insert a store bought CD, they each have a unique
    ID tag or something, so I'd imagine that's how it cross references each
    search.. But for a homemade CD, I guess it searches by track lengths or
    something? (which is strange, because I made the track lengths by myself, so
    they must differ a bit from the original CD).. I can't explain it, so it
    must be magic..

    Adam



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