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Cataloguing CDs - Update
Author: Michael Kear
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32163#161384
I was approved for the Greystones CDDB SDK today, and I've downloaded it.
It's available free to non-commercial developers, and you can issue up to
100 copies of your developed software for testing etc without having to get
a specific licence for that product. So unless I end up developing a custom
tag or something this will do for what I need. So that clears up one myth
- for all practical purposes, the CDDB IS FREE unless you plan to make money
from the software you develop or undertake a mass distribution of your
software.
The DLL works, and the sample apps they sent me work fine, so now I need to
figure out how to integrate the COM objects into a ColdFusion app -
something I've never done before, but I'm sure my Advanced CFWACK will guide
me along properly. Then I think I'll have a CF app, where I can put a CD
in to my PC, and if it's in the CDDB database, it'll download the details we
need for our station catalogue, and it shouldn't be too hard from that point
to have the details inserted into our SQLServer2000 database.
I'm doing it in my spare time, so I might take a while to get it done. But
I'll report progress as I get somewhere with it.
Thanks for all your suggestions!
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
p.s. For those who missed the story so far, I'm a member of a
volunteer-run radio station and we're trying to automate the logging we have
to do for APRA, the royalty collection organisation here in Australia.
(equivalent of BMI and ASCAP in the USA). This means cataloguing the
hundreds of CDs in our library - recording album name, label, catalogue
number, all the track names, artists, song authors (that's the tricky bit -
not many databases around the world have song writer info) and times in
minutes and seconds. We're not looking forward to the prospect of having
to roster members to sit and type all that info on all the CDs we have.
So we're trying to have an automated method where we just put a CD into a
PC, and it looks up the CDDB like Windows Media does, and retrieve all the
info we need that way. We figure about 80% of our albums will be on that
database, so it wont eliminate the workload, but it'll reduce it
considerably we hope.
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May 24, 2012
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