Identifying CDs

Question

I\'d like to be able to determine what music album CD is in a CD drive. For example, if someone claims that the CD in their drive is Eminem - The Eminem Show, I would like t

Answer 1

As for music CDs, Gracenote works by analyzing the actual waveform data of every track on the CD. It does this is a format-neutral way. It talks about it here.

I'd also recommend last.fm, MusicBrainz, and discogs.

Answer 2

You probably want to use something like libcddb to get/verify music CD information. I don't know if there is a similar database for program discs.

Answer 3

You may want to look a the Wikipedia article to learn how CDDB work. Then you can look at libcddb to implement what you want in C. The source code should give you plenty of clues in case C is not your language of choice.