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CDOWN(1)							   User Commands							  CDOWN(1)

NAME
cdown - query cddb database for info on a disc SYNOPSIS
cdown cdown [-[0..9]|-d device] [-H H] [-P P] [-V|-?|-h] DESCRIPTION
The cdown command is a command to query the CD-ROM for track information, use this to fetch information on this CD-ROM from the CDDB data- bases (freedb.freedb.org), and then output the information in a form suitable for cdir(1). cdown prints the information it downloads on stdout, in a format suitable for appending to .cdtooldb. Should there be an uncertainty as to which CD-ROM information it should download, it prints a list of alternatives to stderr and prompts for the user to select one. A network connection is required for this to operate properly. OPTIONS
-d device specify the cdrom device -H host get database using HOST (def=freedb.freedb.org) -P port get database using PORT (def=888) -l list available cddb hosts -[1..9] specify /dev/cdromN (def=/dev/cdrom) -r output raw answer of the CDDB server -v verbose output -D enable runtime debugging -V print version, exit -[?|h] print help, exit FILES
~/.cdtooldb - default database file. ENVIRONMENT
CDTOOLDBPATH - colon delimited path of database files to search. It is not necessary to specify ~/.cdtooldb, as this is automatically added to the end of the search path. CDTOOLDEV - device file for cd-rom, overrides compile-time defaults. CDDBHOST - host to query, overrides compile-time default SEE ALSO
cdir(1) AUTHORS
Main code: Bryon Ellacott <rodent@homer.humbug.org.au> Enhancements: Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com> CDTOOL
29-July-2004 CDOWN(1)

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CDTOOL2CDDB(1)							   User Commands						    CDTOOL2CDDB(1)

NAME
cdtool2cddb - convert .cdtooldb file to set of CDDB files SYNOPSIS
cdtool2cddb [-rvx] [-d dir] [-l len] [input...] DESCRIPTION
cdtool2cddb converts one or more .cdtooldb files to CDDB-format files suitable for using with many CD player applications. The output is a set of files, each named for the 32-bit hexadecimal CDDB ID number of a given audio CD. These files are placed in the current directory unless -d is specified. OPTIONS
-d directory Specify the output directory. This is where the 8-digit output filenames go. There will be one file for each CD definition in your .cdtooldb file(s). -l length Specify the maximum line length for the output file. Comment lines may be any length, but the CDDB format specifies that data lines must wrap at 76 characters. Thus, this is the default for cdtool2cddb, but you may change it if you wish. -r At least one CD player application (groovycd) requires lines of its CDDB files to end with CR-LF, because they come over the network that way. The -r option tells cdtool2cddb to output such lines; otherwise lines will end with LF only. -v Increment the verbosity level. -x Use an alternate identification string in the output file. If you wish to upload a CDDB file to a CDDB server via e-mail, the server will probably check the ID string in the file to make sure it is from a "trusted" CD player application. cdtool is not trusted, but xmcd is, so the -x option pretends we are xmcd. FILES
~/.cdtooldb A typical cdtooldb input file /var/lib/cddb/misc, ~/.groovycd Typical output directories (see -d). SEE ALSO
cdir(1), cdown(1), cdadd(1) AUTHOR
Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> CDTOOL
10 December 2000 CDTOOL2CDDB(1)
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