Re: new cddb server software with UTF-8 support finally approaching

Hello,

well, doing a follow-up to my own e-mail, which I wrote a week ago. I
must say that I am a bit surprised, that we have a list explicitly for
people interested in the server software development, to which 120
people are subscribed, and not even one of you seems to be interested
enough to test a new server software beta version bringing interesting
new features, or at least comment/react in any other way to the
announcement.
I really don't mean to complain, but if an approaching server software
release is not interesting for people supposedly interested in server
software development (why else would you be subscribed to this list),
I wonder what the purpose of this list is or should be. Maybe we
should close it, which would save us admins the job of deleting the
spam via the web-interface every few days to prevent you from getting
it via this list.

Anyway - I have replaced the server software beta, which you can still
get from
http://www.freedb.org/internal/cddbd-1.5.tar.gz
with a slightly newer version (same filename). The biggest change is
an attempt to stop looping clients in cddbp-mode (did you ever wonder,
why the weekly and monthly statistics looked a bit strange sometimes? -
looping clients!). If a query for a discid is repeated or a read for a
discid from a category is repeated, the cddbp connection is closed by
the server with an error-message. No idea, if this really helps, but I
think it's worth a try.

Unless you guys (or someone else) find any bugs, my next goal will be
to update the freedb.howto to reflect the changes made in this new
server software version.

Joerg