.TH CD-DISCID 1
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.SH NAME
cd-discid \- read CD and get CDDB discid information.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cd-discid
.I <devicename>
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
In order to do CDDB queries over the Internet, you must know the DiscID of
the CD you are querying.
.BR cd-discid
provides you with that information. It outputs the discid, the number of
tracks, the frame offset of all of the tracks, and the total length of the
CD in seconds, on one line in a space-delimited format.
.BR cd-discid
was designed as a backend tool for cdgrab (now
.BR abcde )
but will work independantly of it.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B devicename
CD\-ROM block device name that contains a CD to be queried.
.SH AUTHOR
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>