Re: Some suggestions about the protocol

Tim P. Gerla (timg nospam at means.net)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:51:37 -0600

On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:06:49AM -0700, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
>
> The only really good thing about the CDDB protocol is that it allows a
> disc which almost matches the ID to be picked out, just in case there
> are multiple versions of a disc with different properties. I suggest
> adding a few bytes to the request that represent the *raw* value of the
> following:
>
> Total track time
> Total number of tracks
> Length of track 1
> Length of last track
>
> This way, you can track a disc from a different production run by doing
> a search for a disc which has had a few of its identifying features
> altered by simply picking each of the albums in the database which are
> within +/- 2% or so of each of the above criteria.
>
Yes. Use as much of CDDB as we can! (forgive me if I sound like a ranting
idiot)

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-Tim
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