isrcsubmit - isrcsubmit Documentation
isrcsubmit [options] [user]
[device]
isrcsubmit extracts International Standard Recording Codes
(ISRC) from audio CDs and allows one to submit the data to MusicBrainz.
ISRCs are used to uniquely identifiy sound and music video recordings.
- --version
- Show program's version number and exit.
- -h
- Short usage help.
- --help
- Complete help for the program.
- --debug
- Show debug messages.
- -u <username>, --user=<username>
- MusicBrainz username, if not given as argument.
- -d <device>, --device=<device>
- CD device with a loaded audio CD, if not given as argument. The default is
/dev/cdrom.
- --release-id=<release_id>
- Optional MusicBrainz ID of the release. This will be gathered if not
given.
- -b <program>, --backend=<program>
- Force using a specific backend to extract ISRCs from the disc. Possible
backends are: mediatools, media_info, cdrdao, libdiscid, discisrc. They
are tried in this order otherwise. See also BACKENDS.
- --browser=<browser>
- Program to open URLs. This will be automatically deteced for most setups,
if not chosen manually.
- --force-submit
- Always open TOC/disc ID submission page in browser.
- --server=<server>
- Server to send ISRCs to. If not given, musicbrainz.org is used.
- --keyring
- Use keyring if it is available.
- --no-keyring
- Do not use keyring.
isrcsubmit is able to use various backends to extract the
ISRC. The libdiscid library is a requirement for isrcsubmit and can
also be used as a backend on most systems.
ISRCs are nearly always stored in the subchannel information and
all tools read them from there. However, some drives tend to extract the
same ISRC for adjacent tracks. Restarting the script might help and using a
different drive might help. CD writers are reported to give better results
than many CD reader drives.
- mediatools,
media_info
- These tools use an experimental algorithm to gather ISRCs from the disc.
This should give less duplicates on the same drive than with other tools.
However, there might be other problems. (only available for Windows)
- cdrdao
- This tool can read ISRCs from CD-Text if no ISRCs are in the subchannel
information. This is rarely the case. Most ISRCs are stored in the
subchannel. (usually available on Linux, but there are also Windows builds
(plank))
- libdiscid
- Starting with libdiscid 0.3.0 this can be used not only for the
disc ID, but also to extract ISRCs. (Windows, Mac; Linux support with
0.3.1)
- discisrc
- The discisrc binary is created from source builds of
libdiscid. There is an experimental branch isrc_raw that
might give better results regarding duplicate ISRCs on Linux. You can use
this binary separately without installing an experimental libdiscid
library on the system.
This manual was written by Sebastian Ramacher and Johannes
Dewender. isrcsubmit was written by Johannes Dewender.
2009-2019, Johannes Dewender