For more information on CdGet, check the official homepage on
http://trasdocka.hemmet.chalmers.se/cdget. See INSTALL for compiling
instructions.

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CdGet is not just another client for mp3 file sharing on the
Internet. CdGet is meant to do the work for you. In traditional file
sharing/downloading clients you often end up having to watch and
attend to the download in many steps. This process is usually
mechanical, repetitive and boring, a perfect candidate for
automatization! CdGet is meant to do exactly this, and eliminate the
need for manual control over the download process.

Typically, to download the latest album of your favorite artist, you
first find the titles of the songs, search and try to download them
one by one. Even if this all goes well, you still have to move your
files to where you want them, change their names which is probably
wrong or at least not in the style you want them. This is the ideal
case and still requires three stages. In the Real World, things
probably get even worse. Your downloads gets interrupted when someone
leaves the network you're on, transfer rate drops, the extra downloads
you started to this song to at least get one correctly downloaded
starts exactly when it doesn't have to, and so on.

Doing the same thing with CdGet is an easy, one step operation. You
search for the wanted album or song using the huge FreeDB database,
then select what songs (or complete albums) you want do
download. CdGet does the rest of the work for you, searches, downloads
(trying out sources to find the fastest), and finally moves your files
to your configured location. The path and name of the file is
configurable and can include artist, album, song title and track
number, in the order and format you prefer.
