GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 125879
RFE: Reading CD-Text capability
Last modified: 2008-09-01 17:30:41 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.
I agree; this sounds like precisely what CD-Text is meant to accomplish, providing track information for uncommon compilations.
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? :^]
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...
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
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.
Could someone close this bug? sound-juicer and Rhythmbox have been the only CD players on GNOME for a while now.
(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