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cddbget

CDDBGET(1)						      General Commands Manual							CDDBGET(1)

NAME

       cddbget - gets CDDB info of a CD

SYNOPSIS

       cddbget [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The cddbget script can be used to get CDDB info of a CD. It can handle several output formats.

OPTIONS

       no argument
	      gets CDDB info of CD in your drive

       -c     device (other than default device)

       -o     offline mode - just stores CD info

       -d     output in xmcd format

       -s     save in xmcd format

       -i     db. one of: mysql, pg, oracle, sqlite

       -O     overwrite file or db

       -t     output toc

       -l     output lame command

       -f     http mode (e.g. through firewalls)

       -F     some stateful firewalls/http proxies need additional newlines

       -g     get CDDB info for stored CDs

       -I     non interactive mode

       -H     CDDB hostname

       -C     use local cache

       -R     readonly cache

       -G     cache has not the diskid as filenames (much slower)

       -P     cache path (default: /tmp/xmcd)

       -D     put CDDB_get in debug mode

SEE ALSO

       CDDB_get(3pm).

AUTHOR

       CDDB_get was written by Armin Obersteiner <armin@xos.net>.

       This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   March 1, 2005							CDDBGET(1)