response 48 of 85:

Oct 29 17:10 UTC 2003

>I'm pretty sure that if you want eac you'll be better off downloading 
>it.

So how do I find it?  Google for it?  And then how do I know the sites 
I find are legitimate?  I'm not putting any executable program on my 
computer unless it comes from a reliable source, and web sites I know 
nothing about don't count as reliable sources.

>You would typically use it in conjunction with another program (such 
>as "lame")

Not ANOTHER program?!  I'm having enough trouble convincing myself I 
want the one.

>which would encode the audio data you extracted into a compressed 
>format like MP3.

No, no, I listen to classical music: I do NOT want a compressed format 
and the accompanying degradation of sound quality.

>Also, EAC has the option to query CDDB for the track names, then name
>the files appropriately.

A friend of mine with a Mac has ITunes, or whatever Steve Jobs's music-
for-sale biz is called, but instead of buying tunes he uses it to 
organize his music files on his computer.  What intrigues me about it 
is that if he puts a music CD in his computer, the program looks it up 
in some database somewhere and displays a track list.

What I would like to do is query that database.  I don't want to get 
music from it, but if it's as complete as it looks, I would like to be 
able to find out what things have been recorded and who's recorded them.