Music CD -- Win vs. Linux -- Rev

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:35, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Both Windows and Linux can play a music CD. So why can Windows show the 
>   contents of a music CD but not Linux? Or am I missing something?

If it shows the contents in a form more meaningful than 'track01',
'track02', etc., it is looking it up in an internet database:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
Some Linux software can do it too, but you may have to configure it
to use http://www.freedb.org/.

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  Les Mikesell
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