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Uploading media information for VLC users
Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:41
by paulycc
I have an audio CD of music I wrote burned on to a CD. When I first tried looking for media information - I have submitted the information to gracenote - VLC downloaded another persons album - in Italian I think - on to my metadata. I have since then replaced that with my titles etc. When I was completing the first song for a brief instant I saw a submit button at the bottom of the media or current information window I had opened. I was actually playing the track while doing so and it switched to the second song, and since then I cannot find a way to submit this data to wherever it goes to when VLC fills in that information. How do I upload it so that whenever anyone plays the CD using VLC the information will be downloaded to them? Where does VLC get its information from?
Or does anyone know how I can permanently keep those titles, tracklist, artist, album etc so that when someone plays it on a computer, regardless of format, the computer simply grabs it off the CD once I have burned copies of it? I suppose that's probably impossible but it doesn't hurt to ask. It seems to come up in iTunes and so far on CD players when I've tried it on those formats.
Re: Uploading media information for VLC users
Posted: 25 Aug 2017 11:02
by InTheWings
you can disable CDDB in prefs
Re: Uploading media information for VLC users
Posted: 26 Aug 2017 21:24
by paulycc
Hmmmm. I'm trying to find that in prefs. under Tools without any luck. Sorry, I'm very noob. I only see the option of cdda::///E (for my optical drive - that seems obvious) under tools/media under location. So if CDDB disables the default server, do I then have to assign a different server? And in any case I think I would like to have anyone using VLC for playing my CD to download information from the primary server VLC might reference. Unless I need to disable CDDB to upload my data there.
Although this leads me to another question: Why doesn't VLC first look at whatever metadata is on the CD itself? At least, I assume the program I used to create the CD using Roxio's NXT5 is writing titles, track data etc. to the disk itself.
Re: Uploading media information for VLC users
Posted: 30 Aug 2017 11:03
by InTheWings
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/* Retrieve CD-TEXT information */
if (sys->cdtextc > 0 && sys->cdtextv[0] != NULL)
vlc_meta_Merge(meta, sys->cdtextv[0]);
/* Return true if the given string is not NULL and not empty */
#define NONEMPTY( psz ) ( (psz) && *(psz) )
/* If the given string is NULL or empty, fill it by the return value of 'code' */
#define ON_EMPTY( psz, code ) do { if( !NONEMPTY( psz) ) { (psz) = code; } } while(0)
/* Retrieve CDDB information (preferred over CD-TEXT) */
#ifdef HAVE_LIBCDDB
Seems CDDB overrides CD-TEXT.
To me the real issue is the either collision in ID with your custom CD,
or a stupid guy did upload to CDDB his own custom CD information with same ID.
Re: Uploading media information for VLC users
Posted: 30 Aug 2017 17:29
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
Historically, VLC prefers CDDB over CD-TEXT.
And yes, unfortunately CDDB can contain garbage.
Re: Uploading media information for VLC users
Posted: 02 Sep 2017 10:16
by paulycc
To InTheWings: It's probably more likely the former than the latter. What's showing up in my titles is an album from 1998 in what appears to be Italian. I'd suspect a different ID. My surname is Italian but it's not particularly common and I don't see it showing up in any of the info.
To Remi: That's good to know. Now if I can make use of that information... I've been gone for a couple of days. I'll need to look into this some more this weekend.
Thanks for the feedback.