CD-Audio
Audio-CD have usually two main ways to get the meta-data associated with the tracks:
- embedded CD-Text information
- online, with CDDB protocol, using FreedDB
VLC and Audio-CD
VLC has had 2 main Audio-CD modules, named CDDA and CDDAX, one using libcdio, the other not.
On windows, because of the difficulty to get libcdio, we use CDDA. But CDDA didn’t have CD-Text support. And libcddb didn’t work for us, at all.
So, on Windows, it used to be no CD-text, no CDDB…
Part one: VLC 1.0.0
VLC 1.0.0 has seen the addition of CD-Text for the CDDA module, and Windows version got it.
Part two: VLC 1.1.0
VLC 1.1.0 will see the addition of the CDDB support for VLC for Windows, since the fixes for libcddb and regex have just been done, tested and pushed by your servant on the main tree of VLC!
Yeah!
Conclusion
While VLC 0.9.x on WIndows didn’t had much to get information from CDs on Windows, VLC 1.1.x will have both CD-Text and CDDB to get informations from your Audio-CDs.
Of course, VLC isn’t the best for audio, but improving can’t hurt, can it?