freedbtool - a python program for interacting with the freedb.org database
Copyright (C) 2002 Robert Muth
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
freedbtool consists of two components:
freedbtool.py - a script written in python 2.1
The manpage is shown below
discid - a program to dump the toc from a give cdrom device
this program was written in C by Jeremy D. Zawodny
and needs to be compiled with the Makefile provided.
The binary thus produced needs to be somewhere on your path.
(type "make" to generate the discis binary)
Usage: freedbtool [mode] [option]*
Retrieve or submit information to and from the freedb.org database. The mode parameter specifies the concrete command. Options are used to change the default behavior of commands. Currently available modes are: config,lscat,get,merge,submit The model of operation of freedb tool is centered around 3 files characterizing a CD
id
contains track length information for a CD,it is compatible with the cddb query command.
A seperate tool discid is used to obtain this information.
index
contains genre and checksum information for a CD, it is compatible with the freedb read command.
This information is obtained by quering the freedb.org with the information in id.
toc
contains the actual freedb.org database record for a CD.
This information is obtained by quering the freedb.org with the information in index.
- Options
-t filename
change default toc filename
-x filename
change default index filename
-i filename
change default id filename
-n number
specify record number in case of multiple matches -h domain
specify domain part of user email -u username
specify username part of user email -s server
specify server
-d discid-command
specify discid commandline
-m db submit-mode
specify mode for submit command
Command description:
config
print version and current defaults motd
print message of the day from freedb.org get
get id, index, toc for current disc from freedb.org update
update existing toc from freedb.org submit
submit revised toc to freedb.org merge
merge index info into toc file track
merge/update track info from id file into toc file