Getting CD information from cda files only

[Dementophobia]

I know VLC is capable of querying CDDB servers. I am having the problem that I want to find the information to a cd, where I only have the .cda files.

Can I "open" those files from a directory without having the actual disc? VLC obviously cannot play them, as they do not contain any audio data, but it should be able to derive the necessary information to query the CDDB server.

Alternatively I also calculated the CDDB1 id manually from the .cda files, but I haven't found a way to supply it directly.

I don't care if I do the query based on the calculated CDDB1 id or based on the .cda files, currently I cannot figure any of those methods out using VLC. Any help is appreciated.