[interfacekit] Re: CDPlayer Dilemma

"DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is rather off-topic, but I've got a bit of a dilemma that I need 
> some help with. I spent quite a bit of today refactoring and 
> improving 
> the CDDB lookup code for the CDPlayer app. It's about *this* close to 
> writing files that are compatible with R5's player, there's a problem 
> with the checksums used to identify each disc - I'm not sure, but it 
> appears that R5's doesn't use CDDB format. For those not in the know, 
> CDDB uses an 8-digit hex checksum to differentiate each CD based on 
> the 
> lengths of the tracks and the total length of the disc. The problem 
> is 
> that I think that R5 uses something else.

If you ask me, please drop the CDPlayer format entirely, and adopt the 
one used by cdda-fs. There is no reason to have two different formats 
when one would suffice, and I prefer the latter which is also less 
obtrusive, and probably used more often than the CDPlayer stuff.

Bye,
   Axel.

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