[SPAM-45] Re: cddb to mysql or csv

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Monday 28 May 2007 11:57, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Jim Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com> writes:
> >     Is there an easy way to convert the cddb music CD data files to
> > MySQL or a spreadsheet?  Using sed and tr will work, I suppose, but
> > somebody must have done this already.
>
> Don't know the answer, but have you googled?  What format are these
> files in?  If they're in plain text format, then certainly perl,
> sed/awk can do the trick.

    Yeah, I Google'd and Yahoo'd for it, looked in Linux Format DVD 
index, Linux Journal topics, but no luck.  There are for-pay programs 
advertised for Windows, but nothing for Linux that I could find.

    The data is a straight-forward text format.  I would be surprised if 
there were not either a program somewhere - or a reason for using some 
other scheme to make the database.  I was just hoping not to have to 
write one.  By now, I have wasted enough time that I could have.  But I 
am a bit leary that CDDB is the wrong approach somehow.

Jim Kuzdrall