Methods > CD drives and ripping > CdRequestAlbumInfo method

Remarks

Given the name of an artist and the title of an album, tries to obtain titles of contained tracks and the related CD cover pictures.

This method obtains exactly the same information returned by the CddbRequestAlbumInfo method but it doesn't need the CD to be physically available inside the CD drive.

When requested information will become available, a CddbAlbumInfoAvailable event will be raised: at this point it will be possible:

•	Obtaining the CD album info through the CddbGetAlbumInfo method.

•	Getting each CD track title through the CddbGetTrackTitle method.

As already mentioned, this method call will also try to obtain the CD cover pictures: in case it should find them, the CdCoverURLsAvailableEx and CdCoverPictureFileAvailableEx events will be raised so it will be possible:

•	Getting the URLs of the CD cover pictures using the GetCdCoverPictureURL method

•	Getting the temporary file pathname, containing the downloaded CD cover pictures, using the GetCdCoverPictureFile method.

See the How to get a CD cover picture tutorial for further details.

Syntax

[Visual Basic]

control.CdRequestAlbumInfo (

strArtist as String,

strAlbum as String,

strReserved as String

) as enumErrorCodes

[C++]

short control.CdRequestAlbumInfo (

LPCTSTR strArtist,

LPCTSTR strAlbum,

LPCTSTR strReserved

);

Parameter	Description

strArtist	String representing the artist name: if it shouldn't be complete the search session would try finding the best match.
strAlbum	String representing the album title: if it shouldn't be complete the search session would try finding the best match.
strReserved	String reserved for future uses

Return value

Value	Meaning

Negative value	An error occurred, check the LastError property value in order to see the error code meaning
enumErrorCodes.ERR_NOERROR (0)	The method call was successful.