Tokyo's Coolest Sound

Once again, a technological improvement that will most likely only be used by myself. It's really just meant to save me a bit of cut & pasting once in a while, but just in case anyone else is interested, here's how to get started using the Agenda's freedb protocol service.

In the Agenda, CDs that have been released will sometimes show a discreet "DiscID" code at the bottom of their entry (e.g. DiscID 9e0c4e0c for Rocketman "Love, sea & music"). For those CDs, the track titles can be requested directly from the Agenda by using your CD player software's freedb feature. Of course, many CDs get listed on freedb's official CD database early, and it's good to keep submitting to freedb, but for those CDs listed here and which aren't up on freedb [yet], you can try querying the Agenda.

To set-up your freedb-compatible software to query the Agenda, use the following settings. In Windows software CDex look for the Remote CDDB tab in Options/Settings, in Easy CD-DA Extractor it's Options/freedb Settings.

• Protocol: HTTP
• Server: www.chipple.net
• Port: 80
• Path: /~chipplen/mt/agenda/cddb.php
  (Some clients may not allow setting the path, but it may work anyway if they correctly use the Host header in their request.)
• Also enter your email address (or something fake like a@b.c)

The Agenda's freedb protocol service only handles a basic set of queries, and has been tested with CDex and Easy CD-DA Extractor 10.

Of course it doesn't accept track list submissions, as those should always be sent to the real freedb. However, if you've bought a CD of which the track list is already found on the Agenda but which is not yet available through its freedb protocol service, you can email me to contribute the CD's DiscID (precising the CD's artist and title, or sending its Agenda entry's URL) and I will then make it available. To find a CD's DiscID, there's software such as DiscID Calculator (Windows, requires wnaspi32.dll to be in the same folder).

That's about it! Anyone still reading? :)
Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome.