~4Dgifts/toolbox/utilities/cd-catalog README this file hails from ftp://sgi.sgi.com/sgi/cd-catalog/README. it refers to cd-catalog.changes.tar.Z which we are longer including on the toolbox since this file only relects the changes over that past 31 daze, *not* the past 90-120 daze when a new toolbox is generated. FYI and all that glurb..... cd-catalog.tar.Z last updated as of 10/13/95 ______________________________________________________________________________ CDman MUSIC CATALOG ------------------- This directory contains music catalog files for CDman(1) and cdplayer(1) [See note 1]. The music catalog stores titles, artists and program information for Compact Discs. When a CD is inserted in the CD-ROM drive, CDman searches the music catalog for an entry containing catalog information for that recording. If it finds one, it displays the information in its large display panel. Data from the recording's table of contents is used as the key for searching the music catalog. See CDman(1) for details. We recommend you install this catalog in the directory /usr/lib/cddb and have your users put the following line in their .Xresources file: [See Note 1] DATman*databasePath: /usr/lib/cddb DATman*databaseCDir: /usr/lib/cddb If you want to keep the catalog write protected your users should put the following lines in their .Xresources file so your users can add new entries: DATman*databasePath: ${HOME}/.cddb:/usr/lib/cddb DATman*databaseCDir: ${HOME}/.cddb [**IMPORTANT NOTICE: All versions of CDman prior to that in IRIX 5.0, have a bug that makes the databasePath resource (and the CDDB_PATH environment variable) useless. Nothing in the path will be searched. Only databaseCDir is searched.] With a write protected catalog, you will have to periodically gather the new entries from your users' private catalogs and add them to the public database. A user who simply wants his own private database would also use these latter X resource settings. The catalog consists of a set of ASCII files, with one file per catalog entry. The catalog is distributed as a compressed tar file cd-catalog.tar.Z. The distribution is updated on the 1st of each month. The file cd-catalog.changes.tar.Z contains entries added during the past month. The paths of the files in the tar archives are relative to the parent directory "cddb". New entries, in the same format as the distribution, (a uuencoded, optionally compressed, tar file), can be emailed to cd-catalog@sgi.sgi.com for inclusion in the master database. Suggested Format for Entries ---------------------------- Most music genres are relative easy to catalog. Our only recommendation here is to follow the artist's lead in capitalization and spelling of titles. Classical music presents some unique problems and is the focus of this section. Our recommended format is: Title: <Title> '<Popular name>' [<key>, <opus or K number>] Artist: <composer>/<conductor>,<orchestra>,<recording year>/<soloist>,... Track Title: <movement>. <Title> Examples: Title: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' [D-minor, op 125] Artist: Beethoven/Schmidt,Wiener Phil,1986/Sutherland,Horne,King Track Titles: I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso II. Molto Vivace [Note 1] A version of cdplayer that works correctly with this database is available for ftp from sgi in the file ~ftp/sgi/cd-catalog/cdplayer.tar. The only previous version of cdplayer that would work with this database was released in IRIX 4.0.5MM (Media Mosaic). Unfortunately, when Media Mosaic was folded into 4.0.5F, the wrong version of cdplayer was put in. The correct version will be released in IRIX 5.0. The Media Mosaic version of cdplayer(1) does not understand the X resource to locate the CD catalog and it has a couple of other bugs related to handling the database. Please install the new version available for ftp as described above. Earlier cdplayer(1) catalogs can be converted to the new format. using cddbcvt(1). See CDman(1) for details. Unfortunately, [Note 2] The catalog format allows for a different artist for each track but the user interfaces do not yet let you enter more than one artist per CD. [Note To SGI Employees] If you have access to the SGI network, don't make your own copy of this catalog. Instead NFS mount the master catalog from bambi.esd:/usr/local/lib/cddb so that we will automatically collect your additions.
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