woah.... that's COOL!!! any info you get, send along
to the rest of us geeks!! the only thing i can think
is cdvalet does a little frequency scan and passes it
to CDDB, which uses it as a fingerprint, maybe with
some sort of fuzzying algorithm to make it a little
error tolerant...wow!! I wanna know how it works...
--- "Manire, Aaron Dario" <amanire@indiana.edu> wrote:
> from vinyl?! can you elaborate on how you copied
> the track? did you
> provide any information to the burner? or are you
> suggesting some kind of
> analog/digital encryption here?
>
> or maybe it's just that ol' shaolin vodoun,
> adario
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Cohen
> To: AcidJazz
> Sent: 9/23/00 3:47 PM
> Subject: CDDB Magic...
>
> 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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