RE: utf-8, xml, new file format for freedb?

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I think there is some good points in the drawback list beneath.
I have developed a CD Cataloger App for a friend of mine, and the local
db does include
optional artist and year fields on each track (ad. 2 and 3)
A split function then takes the artist-delimiter-trackname field from
freedb and splits=20
it in the 2 separate fields.

Best regards
/Ronnie Petersen



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Schou [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 5. december 2002 13:09
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [fdb-apps] utf-8, xml, new file format for freedb?
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> Hi
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> I have been looking for new information on a new file format for
freedb.
> So far I have found something about utf-8, but not more than that. Is
> anybody thinking of making a new format? If so, where can I read about
it?
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> Someone must have been discussing this before!?
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> The current file format for freedb has several drawbacks:
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> 1. The character set is fixed to ISO-8859-1. Work has been done to
change
> that to UTF-8. Fine!
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> 2. Missing fields. I have some CD's which is compilation CD's with
several
> artists. Here I want to be able to write the name of the artist
> (performer), song writer and the musicians who recorded it.
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> 3. Year of recording. Some CD's like "greatest hits" is recorded
different
> years, so the DYEAR only tells which year it was compilated.
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> 4. CD in multilanguage. I got some classic music which is only
> instrumental. These CD's sometimes get sold with another cover in say
> Chineese. The CD is actually the same in both language and thus will
give
> the same disc ID. An example can be seen here:
> http://www.freedb.org/freedb/classical/cc127f0f
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> 5. Barcode. Most CD's got a barcode on the cover. It would be nice to
have
> a field for that in the database also.
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> ...and much more.
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> best regards/hans
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