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==CD Lookup option==

This is where you tell Picard which CD drive it should use to come up with a [[Disc ID|DiscID]] to use when searching for the [[MusicBrainz]] description of your music files.

===Windows===

On Windows, Picard has a pulldown menu listing the various CD drives it has found. Pull down the menu and select the drive you want.

'''Note''': as of November 27, 2007, the most recent Windows [[Picard Qt|PicardQt]] release (version 0.9.0 beta 1) has an empty pull-down menu for CD Lookup. This means you can't use a CD drive with this release of Picard on Windows. We're sorry. The bug is marked fixed, so the next beta release should have this fixed.

===Linux, other platforms===

On Linux and other platforms, the CD Lookup option is an empty text field. Type in the name of the path to the CD Rom drive. In most cases, this is '''/dev/cdrom''' (for the first drive) and '''/dev/cdrom1''' (for a second drive).

However, depending on your system, many different paths could be appropriate (source: [http://eject.cvs.sourceforge.net/eject/eject/eject/eject.c?revision=1.13&view=markup source code for "eject" command]): a prefix of '''/dev/''' followed by something, or a prefix of '''/media/''', '''/mnt/''', '''/dev/cdroms/''', '''/dev/cdroms/...0''', '''/dev/rdsk/''', or '''/dev/dsk/'''.

One way to test whether a path is the right one is:
# put a CD into the appropriate drive
# at a Terminal, type the command '''eject''' followed by the path you are testing (e.g. '''eject /dev/cdrom''')
# the CD should eject. If it does, the path is what you want. If it doesn't, then try other paths.

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Latest revision as of 22:51, 20 May 2015

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