[Alsaplayer-devel] alsaplayer cddb fetch fails

[Dominique Michel]

Le Sun, 27 May 2007 14:38:51 -0700 (PDT),
John Kelleher <johnkelleheriii at yahoo.com> a écrit :

> Here is my report on alsaplayer cddb fetch.
> Alsaplayer version 0.99.79
> 
> Error 1: 'bad response from the server' message.
> (fixed by D. Michel's comments):
> # default config reads (relevant lines):
> cdda.cddb_servername=freedb.freedb.org
> cdda.cddb_serverport=888
> cdda.device=/dev/cdrom
> 
> Solution: Changed config to read:
> cdda.cddb_servername=cddb.cddb.org
> cdda.cddb_serverport=8880
> cdda.device=/dev/cdrom
> 
> Result: Now I get a server connection, but still no titles. Instead I
> get this:
> 
> 'Could not find any matches for a20bd90d'
> (the number -- e.g., a20bd90d --  varies with the CD)
> 
> # I can not help directly, but I note that the abcde shell scripts seem
> to do a good job of getting all the information from a CD:
> http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php
> 
Thanks for the link, I will look at it.

> Thank you,
> 
> John Kelleher
> 
I am aware of this problem. I committed something in the svn it was 2 days ago,
but it is not working either. So I must correct it (will be today).

The server port is wrong. You can try with

cdda.cddb_serverport=8880

in ~/.alsaplayer/config.

(it is what I will commit for now)

It will let you to reach the server, but it was not working much better for me.
The worst was when using port 80 (the http port for committing a playlist to the
server, not implemented in Alsaplayer), alsaplayer was just freezing.

So we have to look into this function. But you can try with port 8880 and maybe
at you will have more luck as me.

Best,
Dominique