Hello Tom, Although te web extract, below, may help to explain how this stuff works, I doubt it will solve your problem.
So for your information, here it is. I have not formatted the data below, jus located, cut and pasted the info. I at least found it interesting. .... CDDB1 identifies CDs with a 32-bit number, usually displayed as a hexadecimal number containing 8 digits: XXYYYYZZ. The first two digits (labeled XX) represent a checksum based on the starting times of each track on the CD, mod 255. The next four digits (YYYY) represent the total time of the CD in seconds from the start of the first track to the end of the last track. The last two digits (ZZ) represent the number of tracks on the CD. For example, suppose a CD contains a single track of duration 3610 seconds. First the XX checksum is calculated by summing the track starting times mod 255. Since CDs have a 2-second offset from the start of disc data, XX becomes "02". Second, the total CD play duration of 3610 seconds in hexadecimal is 0e1a, so YYYY becomes "0e1a". Finally, there is one track on this CD so ZZ becomes "01". The full disc ID of the example CD is "020e1a01". Any CD which contains one track with a duration of 3610 seconds starting 2 seconds from the beginning of the CD will have this disc ID. To distinguish between different CDs which happen to have the same disc ID, the CDDB1 database is organized into multiple categories. If there is a conflict with different CD releases possessing the same CDDB1 ID, they can be placed in a different category (such as classical, rock, blues, folk or misc). On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:18:52 -0400 Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote: Hello Again: More about ripping CDs: someone said that perhaps the CD I was trying to rip didn't have enough information (or something to that affect) to bear this out or disprove it, I decided to try another CD with CDEX (I'm getting the same results! In fact, I even got an error message; I also got "no match" so I obviously have done something wrong, but don't know what! Any ideas anyone? I keep hearing that CDEX _will_ give me the track titles; oh but you can't prove it by me! Tom Kaufman -- Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk>
