Short: Patch to make ACDB (CDDB client) work Author: unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com (Chris Young) Uploader: unsatisfactory bigfoot com (Chris Young) Type: disk/cdrom Version: 1.0 (updates acdb to 1.2) Requires: disk/cdrom/acdb.lha (ACDB 1.1) Architecture: m68k-amigaos A while ago, acdb stopped downloading CD informations for me. I have only just got round to investigating why this might have happened. It appears that when IDs are requested from CDDB, the client has to send a string identifying which client it is. acdb was sending the string "acdb 1.0". The server was responding with "unauthorised client". It appears that if you want to access the server, you are basically forced to register your product with Gracenote. With a bit of low-level hex editing, I changed acdb so it masquerades as a different client. It now works again. PATCHING ACDB 1.1 Simply run the supplied installer script, and point it towards the directory which contains the acdb executable. It will rename your existing acdb program as acdb_old before doing anything, so if acdb refuses to run afterwards, the patch probably hasn't run. The patched version has the version number bumped to 1.2, in order to tell the difference. If it doesn't patch, you may need to copy gpatch from this archive into c:. Ensure you are patching acdb 1.1, it won't work on any other version. You may also need to change the server in the tooltypes to us.cddb.com, as www.cddb.com no longer works. Note that addb_hosts is not patched and no longer works. BONUS TRACK I have included a small ARexx script called "Download CDID", which is intended to be used with ACDPlay. It is ridiculously simple, but you wil need to edit it to point to the correct path for acdb. Running it simply downloads the ID for the CD you have in your CD-ROM drive. DISCLAIMER I accept no responsibility for any damage or loss of data caused by the patched version of acdb or the isntaller script. gpatch and the original version of acdb are not the responsibility of the author of this patch. This patch is not by or official endorsed by the author of acdb - All use is at your own risk.