Reading CD-text from audio CDs

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How do you read CD-text information (artist, title, etc) from audio CDs with
VB.NET? I've been looking for some information on this for most of the
afternoon and can't seem to nail this down.

Thanks in advance....

Tim
 
Is this actually on the CD? I don't think so...

I was under the impression that the CD had a unique volume number that could
be accessed in some online database such as CDDB where the track and artist
details are maintained.
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Thanks, Bob, but I am well aware of CDDB and that is not what I am asking
about. See the url in my prior reply for an overview of CD-Text.

BTW, a free alternative to gracenote is at:

http://www.freedb.org/

....but then you probably already know that!
 
That being the case I would imagine this was a driver level thing. You may
do better pinging drive manufacturers...

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Thanks, Bob. That's a good idea, but I'm thinking that there should be a
generic solution. I've found some commercially available COM components that
support what I'm looking for, but their cost exceeds my benefit. :-)
 
¤ How do you read CD-text information (artist, title, etc) from audio CDs with
¤ VB.NET? I've been looking for some information on this for most of the
¤ afternoon and can't seem to nail this down.
¤
¤ Thanks in advance....
¤
¤ Tim

You may want to check out the following thread. I'm not aware of a .NET component that will do this.

http://tinyurl.com/dg9j8


Paul
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