NAME

CDDB - Read the CDDB entry for an audio CD in your drive

SYNOPSIS

 use CDDB;

 my %config;

 # following variables just need to be declared if different from defaults

 $config{CDDB_HOST}="cddb.cddb.com";    # set cddb host
 $config{CDDB_PORT}=888;                # set cddb port
 $config{CD_DEVICE}="/dev/cdrom";       # set cd device

 # user interaction welcome?

 $config{input}=1;   # 1: ask user if more than one possibility
                    # 0: no user interaction

 # get it on

 my %cd=get_cddb(\%config);

 unless(defined $cd{title}) {
   die "no cddb entry found";
 }

 # do somthing with the results

 print "artist: $cd{artist}\n";
 print "title: $cd{title}\n";
 print "category: $cd{cat}\n";
 print "cddbid: $cd{id}\n";
 print "trackno: $cd{tno}\n";

 my $n=1;
 foreach my $i ( @{$cd{track}} ) {
   print "track $n: $i\n";
   $n++;
 }

DESCRIPTION

This module/script gets the CDDB info for an audio cd. You need LINUX, a cdrom drive and an active internet connection in order to do that.

LICENSE

This library is released under the same conditions as Perl, that is, either of the following:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version.

b) the Artistic License.

If you use this library in a commercial enterprise, you are invited, but not required, to pay what you feel is a reasonable fee to the author, who can be contacted at armin@xos.net

AUTHOR

Armin Obersteiner, armin@xos.net

SEE ALSO

perl(1), <file:/usr/include/linux/cdrom.h>.