isrcsubmit - Man Page

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.

isrcsubmit-config(5)

This manual was written by Sebastian Ramacher and Johannes Dewender. isrcsubmit was written by Johannes Dewender.

2009-2023, Johannes Dewender