Re: arsclist Cataloging Software

[John Ross <johnross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:53 PM 12/16/2002 -0500, Steve Smolian wrote:
> This downloads from various CD info sites.  The info you get is no better
> that what the companies encode which is inconstant, often incomplete and too
> frequently wrong.


The CD info sites use the timing of the bands on each CD. The theory is 
that just about every CD contains a unique combination of track times, so 
the programs that use those data bases compare the timing on the CD 
currently being played with the track times in the DB.

When there's no entry in the DB for a disk, the program asks the user to 
enter the details.  So it's somewhat at the mercy of potentially inaccurate 
entries, but it seems to do pretty well on some pretty obscure titles, like 
vanity CDs issued by a band or single artist.

In practice, the only places I've seen the system fall apart is with things 
like radio programs that are exactly 29:30 or 59:30.

John Ross
Northwest Folklife


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