Post #4138230
2026-07-23 19:03 UTC
@DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social yes, CDDB data was track listing + album cover + other album info identifiable by album checksum derived from track lengths and numbers. Useful to audio CD playback software, for displaying album art and track names (this was the only reason for CDDB to exist, because audio CDs, roughly speaking, do not have any metadata besides track lengths); but absolutely useless for identifying songs by fragments.
Considering that society mostly moved away from audio CDs and that all the other digital music formats (including those stored on CDs) typically also store metadata, I don't think CDDB is very relevant now.
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@DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 13:44
@IngaLovinde@embracing.space @mcc@mastodon.social On a sidenote... Isn't it wild that audio CDs didn't include a few kilobytes of metadata, or album art? I know the format is old, but it seems like it would have been apparent even in the late 1980s that this digital medium had room for that sort of thing and that it might be handy to show album art or song names on the deck.