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Bug 125879 - RFE: Reading CD-Text capability
RFE: Reading CD-Text capability
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-media
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Gnome-CD
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: gnome media maintainers
gnome media maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-30 23:31 UTC by quixada
Modified: 2008-09-01 17:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description quixada 2003-10-30 23:31:59 UTC 
Many CD-writing programs have CD-Text writing capability; however, hardly
any (software) CD players read CD-Text (and no Gnome-based ones that I know
of). It would be nice if this capability was available for mix CDs etc.
Comment 1 Michel Alexandre Salim 2004-07-15 03:56:23 UTC 
I agree; this sounds like precisely what CD-Text is meant to accomplish,
providing track information for uncommon compilations.
Comment 2 comcast.really.sucks 2005-01-22 19:54:46 UTC 
I just spent the better part of a couple of days trying to find an up-to-date
Linux CD player that could read CD-Text.  Of course, Gnome programs were my
preference, but I didn't find any.

As a matter of fact, the only program I found with satisfactory capability in
this regard was - cough - Kscd, from KDE!

Now if that isn't throwing down the gauntlet, I don't know what is!  

Can you clever developers borrow this functionality from Kscd?  It's all GPL, right?

Oh, and this has to be at least medium priority now, right?   :^]
Comment 3 quixada 2005-01-22 20:30:34 UTC 
This is the only Linux-based open source cd-text capable program I could find
(at the time):

http://www.geocities.com/xsadp/sadp_main.htm

There may be others now (over a year later).

Keep in mind that I didn't try this program so I can't vouch for its operability...
Comment 4 Benoît Rouits 2006-01-19 01:47:01 UTC 
sound-juicer has a CD-TEXT backend in CVS HEAD.
it could be nice to use it. 
see : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311571
Comment 5 Tim-Philipp Müller 2006-01-19 09:46:33 UTC 
FWIW, the libcdio-based CD Audio reading plugin in GStreamer-0.10 (cdiocddasrc) will now retrieve CD-TEXT automatically if it is available, and will make those tags available to the application. Should be dead easy to extract this information if it's there (in gst_cdrom_tag_msg in gst-cdrom.c), the main question is how to get it to the frontend.
Comment 6 Michel Alexandre Salim 2008-06-01 21:34:10 UTC 
Could someone close this bug? sound-juicer and Rhythmbox have been the only CD players on GNOME for a while now.
Comment 7 Marc-Andre Lureau 2008-09-01 17:30:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Could someone close this bug? sound-juicer and Rhythmbox have been the only CD
> players on GNOME for a while now.
> 

yes, we should probably close request bugs for gnome-cd.

Please use sound-juicer, as suggested in comment #4

thanks