Topic: BASS_CD_GetID without CDDB

[fredvs]

Hello, viva BASS.

The perfect BASS_CD can give us infos of a CD audio via internet with CDDB. Perfect.

But if i m not connected...

Ian, i m shure you can see on the cd audio some infos, the serial num, perhaps the name, etc...

It is usefull if we do list with tracks of differents cd.

[Azoth]

What about the ability to read CD-Text Metadata? Is that within the realm of possibility? Needy bunch aren't we

Would it even be worth the trouble? I know Nero, EzCD, etc... will write CD-Text when you make homemade Audio CDs, but do retail manufactured Audio CDs even have this information available on the CD?

.Azoth.

[Sebastian_Mares]

There are some CDs containing CD-Text, like "SADE - Lover's Rock". Anyway, I have asked Nullsoft to implement CD-Text into Winamp, but they said that they can't due to licensig problems. Maybe the same goes for BASS.
Well, as far as I know, the read TOC 5 command retrieves CD-Text data, too.

[Azoth]

I had read in a usenet post that sony/philips own this technology and licenses the ability to read/write CD-Text and provide an SDK. What a pain that would be. If it's anything like the process of licensing CDDB FhG/Thompson MP3, I'd rather eat a bullet.

.Azoth.

[Ian @ un4seen]

I was planning to add support for CD-TEXT (it's already practically done). I wasn't aware it required a license though (if indeed it does)... I'll have to look into that before enabling it.

Ian, i m shure you can see on the cd audio some infos, the serial num, perhaps the name, etc...

I was going to support UPC numbers (BASS_CDID_UPC), but got some strange results in my tests. I've enabled it now anyway in the latest update.