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Old Dec 1, 2018, 01:25 PM
Appilesh Appilesh is offline
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Default Getting VLC to recognise japanese CDs

Hi,
VLC doesn't retrieve correct album/track information for most of my japanese CDs, for example this: https://vgmdb.net/album/72173, whereas Windows Media Player gets it just fine. I think I understand that WMP uses Gracenote's proprietary cddb server, which is why it has access to more data than vlc.
Is there a cddb server I can use with vlc that will recognise my CDs? I have looked at this thread: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2618. I don't understand whether those servers are just for tagging programs, or if I can use them with vlc, and how I would go about doing that. I'm not sure I understand any of this stuff, really. I am finding it impossible to find support online. Hopefully someone can help me here.
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Old Dec 1, 2018, 01:55 PM
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This looks like a VLC specific issue, so I would recommend asking on their forums. I would just try to set VLC's CDDB server to one of the VGMdb ones and see if it works.
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Old Dec 1, 2018, 02:19 PM
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This looks like a VLC specific issue, so I would recommend asking on their forums. I would just try to set VLC's CDDB server to one of the VGMdb ones and see if it works.
Thank you for your reply
I can point VLC to a general server and a port, but there is no field to point it to an address such as "http://vgmdb.net:80/cddb".
I'm asking here because here there are people who listen to video game/anime music like I do (people who asked similar questions on vlc forums had their needs satisfied with freedb) and the fact that VGMdb has its own cddb server emulator.
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Old Dec 1, 2018, 04:38 PM
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Yeah, I just checked the source and the query path seems to be hardcoded:
cdda.c

As a quick fix I would just patch the corresponding DLL (should be libcdda_plugin.dll in case you're using Windows) by replacing the string.
Code:
hexdump -ve '1/1 "%.2x"' libcdda_plugin.dll | sed "s/2f7e636464622f636464622e63676900/2f636464622f656e0000000000000000/g" | xxd -r -p > libcdda_plugin.dll.patched
2f636464622f656e0000000000000000 is "/cddb/en" (padded with NULL bytes)

This seems to generate the right query, but now fails for a different reason:
Quote:
cdda warning: CDDB error: internal buffer too small
cdda debug: CDDB failure
Default buffer size is 1K, which VLC apparantly never changes. At this point it's probably easier to build your own binary...

EDIT: I can confirm that increasing the buffer to 2K does the trick.

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Old Dec 2, 2018, 03:51 PM
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Yeah, I just checked the source and the query path seems to be hardcoded:
cdda.c

As a quick fix I would just patch the corresponding DLL (should be libcdda_plugin.dll in case you're using Windows) by replacing the string.
Code:
hexdump -ve '1/1 "%.2x"' libcdda_plugin.dll | sed "s/2f7e636464622f636464622e63676900/2f636464622f656e0000000000000000/g" | xxd -r -p > libcdda_plugin.dll.patched
2f636464622f656e0000000000000000 is "/cddb/en" (padded with NULL bytes)

This seems to generate the right query, but now fails for a different reason:


Default buffer size is 1K, which VLC apparantly never changes. At this point it's probably easier to build your own binary...

EDIT: I can confirm that increasing the buffer to 2K does the trick.
Thank you so much for going into this much depth. I have set the server to vgmdb.net, port to 80, and replaced both occurrences of "2f7e636464622f636464622e63676900" with "2f636464622f656e0000000000000000" in the appropriate dll. How do I change the buffer size to 2k? I am on Windows (10). Kind regards.
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Old Dec 3, 2018, 01:44 PM
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I haven't pursued the binary patching approach because of its limitation, and have just patched the source.

Here's the patch:
Link

I'm not sure how difficult it is to build VLC on Windows (using Linux only here).
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Old Dec 4, 2018, 01:44 PM
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I haven't pursued the binary patching approach because of its limitation, and have just patched the source.

Here's the patch:
Link

I'm not sure how difficult it is to build VLC on Windows (using Linux only here).
Thank you for this. However, I am not very proficient in this stuff so you might need to explain it like I'm 5. I'm on Windows. Do I just need to compile that patch into a dll and replace the libcdda_plugin.dll in vlc? Or do I need to copy and paste the lines from that patch, into the source for the original libcdda_plugin.dll, and then compile all of that into a dll. Or something else entirely? Sorry, I really can't figure it out.
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Old Dec 4, 2018, 01:57 PM
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You apply the patch to the sourcecode, either via git-am or manually via patch. For compiling I can just refer you to the VLC Wiki. You probably want to build the entire project then, and not just the CDDA plugin (to be on the safe side).
One reason why I don't use Windows. It's always extremely difficult to build your own software there, let alone setup a working compiler toolchain... Anyway, good luck.
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