SYNOPSIS
cdown
cdown [-[0..9]|-d device] [-H H] [-P P] [-V|-?|-h]
DESCRIPTION
The cdown command is a command to query the CD-ROM for track information, use this to fetch information on this CD-ROM from the CDDB databases (freedb.freedb.org), and then output the information in a form suitable for cdir(1).cdown prints the information it downloads on stdout, in a format suitable for appending to .cdtooldb. Should there be an uncertainty as to which CD-ROM information it should download, it prints a list of alternatives to stderr and prompts for the user to select one.
A network connection is required for this to operate properly.
OPTIONS
-
- -d device
- specify the cdrom device
- -H host
- get database using HOST (def=freedb.freedb.org)
- -P port
- get database using PORT (def=888)
- -l
- list available cddb hosts
- -[1..9]
- specify /dev/cdromN (def=/dev/cdrom)
- -r
- output raw answer of the CDDB server
- -v
- verbose output
- -D
- enable runtime debugging
- -V
- print version, exit
- -[?|h]
- print help, exit
FILES
~/.cdtooldb - default database file.ENVIRONMENT
CDTOOLDBPATH - colon delimited path of database files to search. It is not necessary to specify ~/.cdtooldb, as this is automatically added to the end of the search path.CDTOOLDEV - device file for cd-rom, overrides compile-time defaults. CDDBHOST - host to query, overrides compile-time default
AUTHORS
Main code:
- Bryon Ellacott <[email protected]>
- Wade Hampton <[email protected]>