[Gllug] OT: sunday times CD

[Tethys]

Alain Williams writes:

>Incidentally: when I popped it into my PC the player popped up a
>dialogue box telling me that there were 'multiple matches' in the
>database. It gave me a choice of 24 disks that it thought it could
>be, everything from Red Hot Chilli Peppers to Mozart. The "disk
>IDs" are 8 chars long, they all start 020b but what follows varies.
>020b2301 shows multiple matches itself as does 020b2201. What is
>going on ?

If it's the CDDB disc ID you're talking about, it's simply a hash of
the number of tracks and their offsets on the disc. As with any hashing
algorithm, there will be collisions, which is what you're seeing here.
I'm surprised yours all start with the same 4 digits, though.

Tet
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