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<title>HOWTO print CDDB titles with Qt lightscribe</title>
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<h3 align="center"> HOWTO print CDDB titles with Qt lightscribe</h3>
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<p>This document describes how you can create a qlscribe
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template for printing labels with CDDB information embedded. So let's start.</p>
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<h5>1 Materials used.</h5>
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<p>qlscribe version 0.9 or later is used. If you have older
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version please <a
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href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=251217">update</a> </p>
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<p>I downloaded label images from <a
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href="http://www.lightscribe.com/ideas/index.aspx?id=2358">lightScribe design
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center</a></p>
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<p>Music album I used just as an example, I do not
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actually have this disc nor copy of it.</p>
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<p>cddbcmd utility is part of package cddb and on Ubuntu
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can be downloaded from standard repository:</p>
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<pre> sudo apt-get install cddb</pre>
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<h5>2 Create new label and load image</h5>
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<p>Start qlscribe, hit File -> New Label -> Full. You
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should see something like this:</p>
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<p><img height="10" hspace="0"
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src="Program Files/PageBreeze/Sample Website/bg_page.jpg" width=74 border=0>
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</p>
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<p>Insert image Edit -> Insert -> Image then on
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dialog click "Load image.." select image "tape.jpg" downloaded from <a
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href="http://www.lightscribe.com/ideas/index.aspx?id=2358">lightScribe design
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center</a> Here how my label is looking now:</p>
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<p><img height="10" hspace="0"
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src="Program Files/PageBreeze/Sample Website/bg_page.jpg" width=74 border=0> </p>
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<h5>3 Create text placeholders</h5>
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<p>Now select Edit -> Insert -> Text and on
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dialog put text "?DTITLE?". Question marks around name will make this text
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dissapear in qlscribe console mode print. This could be not necessary for disk
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title as it usually set in CDDB titke anyway, but would not harm. But we will
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need to set question marks on song names, as number of placeholders of title
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names should be at least not less than songs on the disk. Adjust font size, so
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when printed it would fit in white area. Now move your text box in the
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place:</p>
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<p><img height="10" hspace="0"
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src="Program Files/PageBreeze/Sample Website/bg_page.jpg" width=74 border=0>
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</p>
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<p>First we would create a placeholder for the first song,
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adjust font properly and then copy/paste it for others. So Edit -> Insert
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-> Text and put "?TITLE1?". Again if we would not put question marks around
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name it will still work, but unused placeholders will be printed as ugly
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TITLE5... strings. Move the text box to the proper position and press Ctrl-C or
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from menu Edit -> Copy. Press Ctrl-V and move the text box to the new postion
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for TITLE2. Right click, then "edit..." and change text to "?TITLE2?". Repeat
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until you have enough titles. Your label could look like this one now:</p>
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<p><img height="10" hspace="0"
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src="Program Files/PageBreeze/Sample Website/bg_page.jpg" width=74 border=0></p>
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<p>Hit menu File -> Save, save it for example
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as "tape.qrx" and exit qlscribe.</p>
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<h5>4 Download CDDB data</h5>
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<p>If you do not have audio disk in cd-rom you can lookup
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your disk genre/id from website. Copy it and run this command:</p>
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<pre> cddbcmd cddb get blah 12345 > blah.txt</pre>
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<p>Check that file have proper data, it should look similar
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to this:</p>
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<pre>mlnsdsdflksj</pre>
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<h5>5 Test you template</h5>
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<p>Now we can test how our created at step 2-3 template works with the data. Run qlscribe
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in console mode to print label as an image:</p>
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<pre> qlscribe --image blahlabel.jpg --file blah.txt tape.qlx</pre>
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<p>If everything fine you should now see file blahlabel.jpg
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in the current directory. Here is what I got for mine:</p>
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<p><img height="10" hspace="0"
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src="Program Files/PageBreeze/Sample Website/bg_page.jpg" width=74 border=0>
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</p>
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<h5>6 Print label</h5>
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<p>Now if you are happy with the result at step 5 you can print label
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directly:</p>
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<pre> qlscribe --print --file blah.txt tape.qlx</pre>
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<p>Enjoy!</p>
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<p>Please send comments, suggestions or noticed errors
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directly to <a
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href="mailto:vyacheslav@kononenko.net">mailto:vyacheslav@kononenko.net</a> or
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visit <a
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href="http://qlscribe.sourceforge.net">http://qlscribe.sourceforge.net</a> and create
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an item in the Bug tracker.</p>
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