User:PBryan/mbdiscid

mbdiscid

Description

The mbdiscid script will compute the MusicBrainz disc ID for an inserted disc, and either:

• submit the disc ID to MusicBrainz through a browser, or
• print the disc ID of the inserted disc.

Dependencies

• Device-Cdio (Ubuntu package: libdevice-cdio-perl)
• Digest-SHA1 (Ubuntu package: libdigest-sha1-perl)
• Getopt-ArgvFile (Ubuntu package: libgetopt-argvfile-perl)

Notes

• This script is tested on Ubuntu 8.10; mileage may vary on other platforms.

Download

• Download mbdiscid-0.7

License

• This script is licensed under the GPL 2.0 or later.

Usage

Usage: mbdiscid [options]

Options

• Option	Description	Default
  --action=action	Action to perform.	submit
  --browser=program	Name of program to execute as browser.	sensible-browser
  --device=device	CD-ROM device to query.	/dev/cdrom
  --help	Display this help message.
  --mbserver=server	MusicBrainz server to query.	musicbrainz.org
  --quiet	Quiet operation, no screen output.
  --verbose	Verbose output of progress information.

Actions

The --action option determines what action this script should perform. The choices are:

• Action	Description
  print	Print the disc ID of the inserted disc.
  submit	Submit the disc ID to MusicBrainz through browser.

Configuration file

You can store persistent command-line options in a file called .mbdiscid in your home directory. They will be read as defaults prior to processing any passed command-line options.

Changelog

0.7 (2009-01-13)

• Support discs with multiple data tracks. (IRC: nikki)

0.6 (2009-01-07)

• Initial version released to MusicBrainz.