CDDB.py / News: Recent posts

Thanks to the kind help of some sourceforge.net members out there, I've added Mac OS X (Darwin) support to the CDDB python module. Also, I bumped the FreeDB protocol version to 5, which allows users to get the DYEAR and DGENRE fields describing their discs.

Phew. Lots of updating. Default to freedb.freedb.org for the CDDB server; I don't want to play
GraceNote's licensing games. FreeDB is great and works perfectly. New cdrom.open() and wrapper DiscID.open() calls to perform
"do what I mean" CD audio device opening appropriate to each
platform; even works on Win32. Update win32/mci.dll for Python 2.0; thanks to Mike Roberts
<zoarre@yahoo.com> for the recompile! Also, remove all occurences of
'import fcntl', as it's no longer necessary with the new DiscID.open()
call. Tested and works on Windows 2000 with Python 2.0. Update cddb-info.py to reflect the new simple DiscID.open() call. Update setup.py to use the new Extension module instead of the
old way for specifying which C files to compile. Update win32/cdrom.py to add a cdrom.open() call. Since win32 does
not use an open file for the audio cdrom, just returns the "device"
string passed in. The default of cdaudio should be fine for most
people, but I assume there are alternate "device" names. Update unix/cdrommodule.c to add a cdrom.open() call. Uses #define'd
defaults appropriate to each platform for both the CDROM device file
name (/dev/cdrom on bsd/linux, /dev/vol/alias/cdrom0 on Solaris) and
the flags to use (O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK on Linux). Add setup-win.py, experimental win32 setup.py. Untested.