Databases like that are a bit of a chicken and egg problem. How do you expect to populate it? In order for it to be at all useful, you'll need to convince developers of tagging and/or ripping software to integrate with it. That's going to be a tall order without many thousands of CD entries just to start.
GENRE data is going to be interesting. I suspect that if you solicit data from the public, that it's going to be all over the board for any given work. I think this is why FreeDB often returns no GENRE, and very often no YEAR when ripping a disc. No CONDUCTOR field? No fields for soloists? I would think distinguishing between BAND/ORCHESTRA/ENSEMBLE and individual performers would be valuable, instead of lumping them all into the ARTIST field. You'll need an ARTISTSORT field. In fact, you need to have a sort field for any field that potentially contains a proper name, so a CONDUCTORSORT if you have a CONDUCTOR field. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55983 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
