[mb-users] Convert CDDB discID to Musicbrainz discID

Steve Wyles steve at inhouse.co.uk
Sat Nov 24 07:15:37 UTC 2007


On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Jeffrey Barish wrote:

> I suppose that what I'd like to hear is either that freeDB does have the TOC
> and that there is a way to use the TOC so obtained to compute the MB
> DiscID; or that there is a database that maps CDDB DiscIDs to MB DiscIDs.
> Or perhaps there is a way to look up an album at MB using the CDDB DiscID.

Unfortunately it isn't possible to convert a cddb id to a musicbrainz 
discid. Although most of the TOC is stored on the freedb server and can be 
easily retrieved, the length of the last track in cd disc sectors (75 per 
second) can't be determined.

Steve



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