This shows a disc in a drive on musicbrainz.org

showrelease.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Copyright 2009-2013 Johannes Dewender ( brainz at JonnyJD.net ) 
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# 
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# usage: ./showrelease.py [device]

import sys
import os
import re
import discid

# gather arguments
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    device = sys.argv[1]
else:
    device = discid.get_default_device()

# get disc ID
try:
    disc = discid.read(device)
    url = disc.submission_url
    id_ = disc.id
except discid.DiscError as exc:
    print("DiscID calculation failed: %s" % exc)
    sys.exit(1)

print('DiscID:\t\t %s' % id_)

# open firefox
try:
    os.execlp('firefox', 'firefox', url)
except OSError as exc:
    print("Couldn't open the url in firefox: %s" % e)
    sys.exit(1)

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