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wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu writes:

> Lars, do you have an application for getting the serial number off of
> a CD in the drive (ascii output)?  Thats the only thing I can't do in
> my script.  I have to run something like xmcd to get it, and then feed
> that to my script (which then uses the cddb to get the
> artist/album/song-titles).

The following document explains how to calculate this disc id given
the cd toc info:

    http://www.cddb.com/ftp/cddb-docs/cddb_howto.txt