Re: [rumori] MP3s: pay-to-play: CDDB


From: Steev Hise (steevATdetritus.net)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 12:26:16 PST


On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim Carrico wrote:

>>It's certainly weird: I wasn't even connected to the Net at the time. I
>>wonder how that works?
>
>ya got me there - you sure it didn't connect you? I'm pretty sure it needs
>to connect to do the lookup.

i think some players store their own local copy of info for
CDs you've played before. so if you ever put that disc in
your drive before when you were online, it may have grabbed
the data then....

smh

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