How to convert the following code

atarikid · **Joined:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:43 pm **Posts:** 427

I asked this in another thread too but this may well be the correct place:

Found VB code to calculated the discid (for freedb).

Function DiscID() As Long
  tocSum = 0
  For Each track in CDTOC
    tocSum = tocSum + AddDigits(track.PositionInSeconds)
  Next
  
  firstLastSum = CDTOC.track(0).PositionInSeconds
  firstLastSum = firstLastSum - CDTOC.leadOut.PositionInSeconds
  
  DiscId = ((tocSum and &HFF)>>24) Or ((firstLastSum)>>8) Or CDTOC.NumTracks
End Function

Function AddDigits(position)
  addDigits = 0
  Do While (position > 0)
    addDigits = addDigits + (position Mod 10)
    position = position \ 10
  Loop
End Function

What does >> do? And how is it achieved with RB?

kermit · **Joined:** Mon May 30, 2011 12:56 am **Posts:** 702

>> means 'shift the binary bits of the number to the right'
>> 24 means do it 24 times
>> 1 means do it once

So 0110 >>1 gives you 011 result.

((tocSum and &HFF)>>24) is evaluated as a boolean : (is the result anything other than 0?)

timhare · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:29 pm

Quote:

DiscId = ((tocSum and &HFF)>>24) Or ((firstLastSum)>>8) Or CDTOC.NumTracks

I don't think this is evaluating a boolean. I think it is doing a bitwise OR.

atarikid · **Joined:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:43 pm **Posts:** 427

timhare wrote:

Quote:

DiscId = ((tocSum and &HFF)>>24) Or ((firstLastSum)>>8) Or CDTOC.NumTracks

I don't think this is evaluating a boolean. I think it is doing a bitwise OR.

Ok, and how is this translated to RB?

npalardy · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:46 pm

well would be better to have the original C because this

(tocSum and &HFF)>>24

should always give you 0
it takes the lowest 8 bits (&hFF) and grabs those from tocSum (tocSum and &hFF) and shifts them right 24 bits - shifting 8 bits right 24 bits will give you 0 - always
So I suspect this is incorrect

the rest is pretty straight forward

dim tmpA as integer = (tocSum and &HFF)
tmpA = bitwise.ShiftRight( tmpA, 24)
dim tmpB as integer = bitwise.ShiftRight(firstLastSum,8)

DiscId = (tmpA Or tmpB) Or CDTOC.NumTracks

Its been a long time since I looked at CDDB disc ids

timhare · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:10 pm

According to Wikipedia, those ">>" operators should be "<<" - shift left.

Quote:

CDDB1 identifies CDs with a 32-bit number, usually displayed as a hexadecimal number containing 8 digits: XXYYYYZZ. The first two digits (labeled XX) represent a checksum based on the starting times of each track on the CD, mod 255. The next four digits (YYYY) represent the total time of the CD in seconds from the start of the first track to the end of the last track. The last two digits (ZZ) represent the number of tracks on the CD.

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