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CD-Text Reader Features |
 Read CD Text
information for the disk and its tracks
- Advanced
error correction: CD-Text Reader is often able to read CD
Text correctly even if a CD drive reads it with errors
- Enumerating
CD devices, installed on the system
- Get CD
device name (consisting of device vendor, device name and
revision number, e.g. "SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L C100") and
drive letter for this device
- Check, if
the CD drive is ready for access (drive is ready when a CD
disk is inserted in the drive and this disk is readable by
this drive)
- Open and
Close CD tray
- Check device
reading and writing capabilities (e.g. CD-Text Reader can
check if the drive is capable of reading CD-RW disks or
writing DVD-R media)
- Get CD
device loading mechanism (e.g. tray or caddy)
- Get CDDB ID for the disk (this ID can be used to get information about the CD from FreeDB)
- Get
additional CD device capabilities (e.g. if the device
supports CD Text reading, or playing audio discs, etc)
- Get Table Of
Content (TOC) for the CD device (count of CD tracks and some
additional information about each track):
- Start
position (can return start position as the sector index or
in Minute:Second:Frame format)
- Size of
the track (can return size of the track as the sector
count or in Minute:Second:Frame format)
- Is the
track contains audio or data
- Is the track copy prohibited
- Windows Installer merge module to easily include CD-Text Reader into your Windows Installer-based installations.
New in v.1.0.3:
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A sample application can be used to copy CD-Text to clipboard and use it in other applications, such as CD cover editors or disk cataloguers
New in v.2.0.0:
- Added support for disk information retrieving form FreeDB database
- Artist and disc title
- Year, in which the CD was released
- Genre of the disc in a textual form
- Title of the each track on the CD
- Support HTTP proxy with basic authorization
- Fixed bug with return values from CDDeviceManager functions (now these functions return correct error codes)
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Comparison Between CD-Text Reader and Other Technologies of Obtaining CD-DA Information |
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Requires available internet connection |
Speed of obtaining information |
Requires CD TextTM written on a CD |
| CD-Text Reader |
No |
<1 sec |
yes |
| CDDB or FreeDB |
Yes |
2-5 seconds |
No |
| Audio Fingerprinting |
Yes |
90-120 seconds |
No |
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Supported Programming Languages |
Since the functionality of CD-Text Reader is encapsulated into the COM object, it can be used from any of the popular programming languages:
MS Visual C++
MS Visual Basic
Borland Delphi
Borland C++ Builder |
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CD-Text Reader can also be called trough the appropriate wrappers from the following languages:
.NET
languages family (C#, Managed C++, VB.NET, etc.)
Java
(via JNI)
Note: we recommend using
JNIWrapper to access CD-Text Reader from Java |
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| Samples for each language are provided. |
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