Philip Meyer;398203 Wrote: > >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).
thats why i am trying to get winamp to do what WMP does, to change that lack of congruent support. and btw, winamp, and other apps, support differing formats that store similar values in different ways via one interface, this is no different. Philip Meyer;398203 Wrote: > > >moreover, most apps don't maintain separate DBs for differing users > of > >the same music. in fact, do any? > > > Yes. Most do. most do? none do, not via the app alone. Philip Meyer;398203 Wrote: > 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. this is not the same thing. you are confusing differing windows users with the app ITSELF supporting multiple DBs [multi app users] under the SAME [windows] user. thats what i was talking about. while it is clever certainly to use two windows users on one machine to maintain differing DB info for a music app, i think its fair to say that a field in the spec can only have one value. in other words, you can't set TPE1 one way, and she another, and both do it so it simultaneously exists, and you wouldn't want that anyway and accept that as true or so i hope. the same should be true of POPM, (except of course in cases where the app DOES follow the spec totally properly and can distinguish between users) Philip Meyer;398203 Wrote: > Most apps maintain their own music DB, and more often than not it is > stored in the logged in users personal documents folder. i can't say where each app stores its DB info, and if they all work separately with differing WINDOWS users or not, but if POPM is implemented correctly, using a method of differentiation in the spec, then i don't see a problem. Philip Meyer;398203 Wrote: > > >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. ok. Philip Meyer;398203 Wrote: > > >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. seems to me one would be fully aware of what one got "new" and that SC has a recently added feature. besides, anyone anal about it would vet the files in a tag editor before having SC import them anyway. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (my home) / SBR (parent's home) / SBC (my home) - w/SC 7.3.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59929 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
