RE: CDDB Magic...

From: Manire, Aaron Dario (amanire@indiana.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 16:23:32 MET DST

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    from vinyl?! can you elaborate on how you copied the track? did you
    provide any information to the burner? or are you suggesting some kind of
    analog/digital encryption here?

    or maybe it's just that ol' shaolin vodoun,
    adario

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Adam Cohen
    To: AcidJazz
    Sent: 9/23/00 3:47 PM
    Subject: CDDB Magic...

    The strangest thing happened to me today. I made a homemade CD from my
    vinyl copy of Shaolin Soul (the compilation with all the Wu-Tang
    featured
    samples) and inserted it into my computer so I could add it to my CD
    database, and magically, CDValet (my CD catalog program) connected to
    CDDB
    and received the information for the disc.. I was quite surprised, as I
    didn't expect it to be able to retrieve the information for a home made
    disc.. I mean, when you insert a store bought CD, they each have a
    unique
    ID tag or something, so I'd imagine that's how it cross references each
    search.. But for a homemade CD, I guess it searches by track lengths or
    something? (which is strange, because I made the track lengths by
    myself, so
    they must differ a bit from the original CD).. I can't explain it, so it
    must be magic..

    Adam



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