[Lazarus] CDDB access

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Teresa Williams via lazarus wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to access CDDB (and also MusicBrainz would be nice) on Linux.  I found https://wiki.freepascal.org/CDDB but as that page suggests, the download link is defunct.
>
> Are there any other such?  In the past I have done this by spawning two bash scripts which use CDDB and write text files.  Ugly. Slw. Error-prone (the format of the results is a bit variable).
>
> I'm not too proud to do that again, but is there a more elegant way?

FPC comes with such units since ages:

https://www.freepascal.org/daily/packages/cdrom/index.html

Michael.