Hi folks,
I've done quite a bit of digging on here, CPAN, ActiveState, and in general on the web. I'm having difficulty finding anyone who is successfully using Perl on a Win32 system to grab information from a CD in their CD-ROM drive, and convert it into a CDDB protocol 'ID' string. There's a CDDB.pm module which can do all of the snagging and parsing after you've gotten an ID, and there's even a module called CDDB_get which will grab the table-of-contents, and create a CDDB ID, but while Activestate mentions that the module supports Windows, I cannot get it to do so. It's possibly that I'm missing something with the 'CD_DEVICE' part of the config in this, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the Win32 equiv of /dev/cdrom might be, other than 'x:/'.

I'm at a complete loss now, and am not up to the task of hacking into whatever internal hubbub is involved in doing low-level system calls to devices on a PC - or whatever tomfoolery is involved in developing Win32 support for CDDB_get =)
Any info, kicks in the right direction, or success stories would be a great help.

-=rev=-

In reply to CDDB/id on Win32 by Reverend Phil

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