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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

by Eric Faulkner, Tony Northrup
December 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part II: Home Entertainment
Wrapping Up
That’s all there is to it! You might find that expanding your collection is eas-
ier if the tool you use to rip your CD collection can read data from CDDB,
an online database with album and track data for just about every CD in the
world. You can then automatically save the files into folders in compliance
with the system you’ve defined for your library.
If you have a PC integrated with your home audio system, you might find
yourself using this application in place of your CD collection. I find this to
be especially nice when I have parties and don’t want to play DJ. My guests
can have fun without mixing up all my CDs in their drunken stupor.
If you’ve never played with dynamic page creation tools like ASP, I hope
this simple project has given you a sense of how powerful they can be. I
also encourage you to add your own personal flair to the look and feel of
the pages.
Extensions
For the sake of being concise, this project provides only essential function-
ality, but some very simple additions can make your new system a pleasure
to use.
You could add cover art to each album and modify the display func-
tions to insert the images in the page. You could even get fancy and use
screen-scraping techniques to automatically grab cover art from a web
site like Amazon.com or Buy.com.
One limitation of this project is that
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