Hello!

I work for a record-store in my spare time (doing their website @

http://www.loudmusic.dk).

They use a custom made interface to add records and handle orders etc. etc.

but, the task of adding new records is really labour intensive. If they

could plug in CD and have it search CDDB.com and retrieve the data from

them, it would be a huge time-saver.



But, I'm not able to do this in C++ (which their SDK is based on), but .NET

is more my cup of tea. Using a Web Service (SOAP) for retrieving CD

information based upon the CD info would be really nice! Ofcourse, I would

have to read the serial-number of the CD, but from that point - it would

really easy.



Anybody?



with regards

anders lundholm · lundholm@s...

the sphereworx / monoliner experience

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Yep, this would be really cool. I mailed the cddb people a long time 

ago

(way before SOAP was released) suggesting that they provide an XML 

based

API. I was hoping they'd incorporate it into CDDB2, but nothing came of

it. A WebService seems the logical sucessor to that.



Dave





"Anders Lundholm" <lundholm@s...> wrote in message

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>

> Hello!

> I work for a record-store in my spare time (doing their website @

> http://www.loudmusic.dk).

> They use a custom made interface to add records and handle orders 

etc.

etc.

> but, the task of adding new records is really labour intensive. If

they

> could plug in CD and have it search CDDB.com and retrieve the data

from

> them, it would be a huge time-saver.

>

> But, I'm not able to do this in C++ (which their SDK is based on), 

but

.NET

> is more my cup of tea. Using a Web Service (SOAP) for retrieving CD

> information based upon the CD info would be really nice! Ofcourse, I

would

> have to read the serial-number of the CD, but from that point - it

would

> really easy.

>

> Anybody?

>

> with regards

> anders lundholm =B7 lundholm@s...

> the sphereworx / monoliner experience

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If someone were really interested in doing something like that, a Perl

WebService Gateway could be created that 'vacuums' cddb's pages, grabs the info,

and then could be connected to via a WebServer with SOAP::Lite.



(In fact, I think we'll be seeing hoards of WebServices starting out like this,

until these services do indeed begin to offer their data in XML or WebService

format.)



Ben



> -----Original Message-----

> From: David Sussman [mailto:davids@i...]

> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:59 AM

> To: ASP+

> Subject: [aspx] Re: CDDB providing Web Services?

>

>

> Yep, this would be really cool. I mailed the cddb people a long time ago

> (way before SOAP was released) suggesting that they provide an XML based

> API. I was hoping they'd incorporate it into CDDB2, but nothing came of

> it. A WebService seems the logical sucessor to that.

>

> Dave

>





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