>fine, but imo that isn't always the case nor does it trump persistence. > I didn't say it was more or less important than anything else, just that a rating is what an individual thinks. I don't believe that storing ratings in songs is the way to go, because each file type has it's own format, and individuals have their own ratings but may share songs (POPM is specific to ID3 tags, and not really supported anyway).
>moreover, most apps don't maintain separate DBs for differing users of >the same music. in fact, do any? > Yes. Most do. eg. iTunes. In Windows, I have configured multi-users. My iTunes library has my music in it, and some of my wifes music has been loaded into it. Similarly for my wifes login account. Moreover, if we were to download songs from the iTunes store (we don't), they are only available to that users account, due to DRM, so iTunes *has* to have it's own DB for each account. Most apps maintain their own music DB, and more often than not it is stored in the logged in users personal documents folder. >does SC? i don't use erlands stuff, so i don't know how it works. > There's only one SC database to hold information. Some people run multiple SC's, listening on different ports, so they can have multiple libraries/configurations. The DB schema is likely to change in SC 8 to allow persona's, so certain information could be tied to a particular person. >if you don't want someone elses ratings, change them. > That's the problem - if you inherit someone elses rating, how would you know what is your rating and what isn't? The only thing you could do would be to clear all ratings, so you know which ones you still need to rate. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
