CDDBGET(1)

✨ CDDBGET(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual glow-up of cddbget 💿🦋 — the little script that goes and fetches your CD's CDDB info so you don't have to type it all out like a Victorian scribe. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

cddbget — gets CDDB info of a CD. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cddbget [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The cddbget script can be used to get CDDB info of a CD. like, it literally just... goes and gets it for you 👑 and the best part? It can handle several output formats, so whatever vibe you're going for, she's got you 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

no cap, here's every single flag, and yes, you're gonna want to know all of them:

• no argument — gets CDDB info of CD in your drive. the classic. the icon. just run it and let her cook 🔥
• -c — device (other than default device). use this when your CD is living somewhere else than the usual spot 🎀
• -o — offline mode — just stores CD info. no network, no problem, lowkey a cozy little mode 🌙
• -d — output in xmcd format. for when you need that specific flavor 💅
• -s — save in xmcd format. same format energy, but she's keeping it 🫶
• -i — db. one of: mysql, pg, oracle, sqlite. pick your database bestie, those are the options, periodt ✨
• -O — overwrite file or db. careful, she's not asking permission, she's replacing 😭
• -t — output toc. table of contents, served fresh 🍓
• -l — output lame command. yes, actually lame, the encoder — she'll hand you the command 🌈
• -f — http mode (e.g. through firewalls). when the network is being dramatic and you gotta go around 🧚
• -F — some stateful firewalls/http proxies need additional newlines. niche, but if you know, you know 💜 iykyk
• -g — get CDDB info for stored CDs. for the CDs you already stashed away 📚
• -I — non interactive mode. no questions, no prompts, just vibes and output 🔥
• -H — CDDB hostname. tell her where to knock 👑
• -C — use local cache. speedrun edition ⭐
• -R — readonly cache. look but don't touch, we respect boundaries here 🙈
• -G — cache has not the diskid as filenames (much slower). like, much slower, she warned you 💀
• -P — cache path (default: /tmp/xmcd). that's the default, that's the path, no notes 🎀
• -D — put CDDB_get in debug mode. for when you need to see everything going on in there 🔍✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

CDDB_get(3pm) — go read the perl module too, she's the whole reason this works 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

CDDB_get was written by Armin Obersteiner <armin@xos.net>. absolute legend, we stan 🫶

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

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌈 this was CDDBGET(1) from March 1, 2005, so yeah she's an elder but she still ate and left no crumbs 👑💖 bye ily, go rip some CDs 🎀