david bovill wrote:
On 26 Sep 2005, at 03:11, Alex Tweedly wrote:
It would be interesting to have a future version where the data
could be collected as a collaborative effort (like CDDB/freedb
were); although the number of people who want this data may be
relatively small, I wouldn't be surprised if a good portion of them
were sufficiently enthusiasts that you could get some benefit from
making it available..... something to think about after the basic
version is working well.
Which makes me think - what is the harm of just using CDDB/freedb as
a backend - does the database not have fields for who performed on
which track?
CDDB is no longer freely licensed. If there's a DB spec available, I
can't find it (though given the history, I assume it's very similar to
freedb). And the on-line search doesn't do any track info searching
(except track name).
freedb doesn't have suitable fields.
It has the EXTTn - extended data for track 'n' - which is described as
"intended to be used for other data about the track", but there is no
convention on how that could be used, and no way to search on it
effectively. It's possible (though unlikely) that the local version
would have more options - but I'm not going to do a 400Mb download just
to try it out :-)
(estimated time to complete ..... 2 weeks 3 days and a fews hours. I
*am* looking forward to getting broadband ...)
Also, I noticed that the downloads include a variety of programs to
convert the flat-file formats used by freedb into MySQL or Jet or ....
formats - so I think that for your own use you'd want to be using a
relational DB anyway.
I do still think that import / export to freedb, including adding the
track/musician/instrument data into the EXTTn fields, would be worth
including - but I don't think it should just use cddb/freedb
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Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net
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