cd-discid is a backend utility to get CDDB discid information from a CD-ROM disc.
Using cd-discid is very simple. It accepts a command line parameter, the device name of the CD-ROM drive to look up. For example:
$ cd-discid /dev/cdrom
7c0b8b0b 11 150 23115 42165 60015 79512 101560 118757 136605 159492 176067 198875 2957
The information returned is, in order:
- 32-bit hex CDDB disc-id. The first byte of this is the track checksum, the next two are the length of the CD in seconds, and the last is the number of tracks
- Number of tracks
- Frame offset of each track
- Second offset for the leadout track (length of the CD in seconds)
The (lack of) inspiration behind this output format was the CDDB database server. It accepts requests like so:
http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi?cmd=cddb+query+7c0b8b0b+11+150+23115+42165+60015+79512+101560+118757+136605+159492+176067+198875+2957&hello=user+hostname+program+version&proto=3
There is --musicbrainz option which outputs a TOC that is suitable for calculating the MusicBrainz disc id. This feature is courtesy of Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen.
cd-discid was developed with attention to the CDDB specifications, available at http://www.freedb.org/sections.php?name=Sections?sop=viewarticle&artid=28, using portions of their sample code.
cd-discid should work in Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and DragonFly.
To compile cd-discid you need the recent version of standards compliant C compiler. To build binary, type in terminal:
$ make
$ make install
Second command will install cd-discid files using prefix /usr/local. To change
prefix, append to the command: PREFIX=/my/dir.
Output ID3v2 MCDI (Music CD Identifier) frames. Since these are binary in nature it is unclear what the best method of outputting these should be.
If you have patches, please fork cd-discid at GitHub or simply send your patches by e-mail (see below). If you found a bug, please report it at https://github.com/taem/cd-discid/issues.
Latest program version can be found at http://linukz.org/cd-discid.shtml.
cd-discid is distributed under the terms GNU General Public License Version 2 or greater, or Larry Wall's Artistic license. Please see COPYING for full GNU GPL text.
Original author is Robert Woodcock. Later Timur Birsh picked up maintenance.