Re: all you MP3 people out there... a fix for lars!

[Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    Lars> DISCID=46074b06

    Lars> That DISCID thing looks really clever, doesn't it?  32 bits; that
    Lars> should be four billion possibilities, right?

Hah!  Shows how little you actually grasp of the deeper meanings of
the CDDB format.  You actually thought that the DISCID was a number!
What could possibly have made you think that?  Was it that it looks
like a base 16 number?  pfeh.  Maybe it was the fact that the
components of the DISCID are themselves numbers?  uhm, no.

If you gain enlightenment, you will of course realize that the DISCID
is... a string!  Why else would a request for DISCID 410fd10 fail to
match the record with DISCID 0410fd10?  Specifically, why else would
it whine about a badly formed DISKID?  Why else would I have to ask
Bill to apply the following to cddb.el to work around a galette bug?
Grrr.

---------------------------------------------------8<-----------------
RCS/cddb.el,v  -->  standard output
revision 1.2
--- -   Tue Nov 10 23:07:54 1998
+++ cddb.el     Tue Nov 10 23:07:45 1998
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
       
       ;; Get the disk ID
       (re-search-forward "^CDROM: disk id = \\([a-f0-9]+\\)" nil t)
-      (setq discid (match-string 1))
+      (setq discid (format "%08x" (string-to-int (match-string 1) 16)))
 
       (list discid num-tracks length track-info))))
 

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Matt

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