[mb-users] Please help with libdiscid testing

[Mika Heiska]

Lukáš Lalinský wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you probably know, all Windows tagger incorrectly read TOC for
> multi-session CDs, which leads to different DiscIds for the same CD just
> because the DiscIds are generated on different platforms. See
> 
> http://musicbrainz.org/reports/generated/BadWin32CDTOCs/
> or
> http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/536
> 
> for examples of such albums. Some time ago, I've added to libdiscid a
> new TOC reading method, which should return correct results even for
> multi-session CDs, but unfortunately it works only on Windows
> NT/2000/XP. For Windows 9x/ME we still have to use the old, incorrect,
> way.
> 
> I'd like to include this version of libdiscid in the final version of
> PicardQt, but first I need to know if it really works correctly in all
> edge cases. Could you please download this file, put it to your
> Picard/PicardQt folder and try to generate DiscIds for various CDs to
> see if it returns the expected results? I'm mostly interested in testing
> with multisession/copy protected CDs, CDs with pre-gap tracks or any
> other unusual CDs.
> 
> http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/tmp/discid.dll
> 
> Lukas

In addition to the stuff I posted earlier, I just encountered a CD [1] 
that the old discid.dll couldn't read at all (two data tracks at the 
end), picard gave a pretty standard cdlookup error, but the new 
discid.dll had no trouble with. Just in case you are still interested in 
this information. :)


[1]http://musicbrainz.org/release/8fa0f6a7-096a-4f0e-b3a6-fd2549006210.html



~Mika