Re: metadatabase
Kristian Kvilekval <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.zinf.devel |
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| Message-ID | <1066004349.4073.13.camel@krispc> |
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 02:04, Ralf Engels wrote: > Hi, > I am just trying to clean up playlist and playlistmanager. > Some things are still missing but I have some questions to the meta > handling: > > 1. We have a playlist format (PLM) that stores meta informations. Why do > we need a special database for this. The database is for caching and browsing of metadata. Especially for things that can be costly to compute like the songlength etc... > 2. We already have a metadatabase (mdb) why do we need another (database > musiccatalog) ? We support both *temporarily* while the the new mdb code is filled in, debugged and completed. Eventually the old musiccatalog should disappear. We also need to see how this will affect the win32 code base which uses musiccatalog. > Can we please agree on the future stategy? > > I know that Kristian is in favour of his database. In principle I think > that using a database is a good idea. Just not in this case. > > I would prefere using PLM and MDB for the future. The principle is sound > and the implementation (expecially mdb) is quite good. mdb still needs to be restructured a little to allow it to use a plugin architecture like the old PlaylistFormat .. then the old should go away when all the code is brought up to date. I like to have the player working at all times. Mdb went in pretty quickly as I wanted to get something in to support the layered metadata model ASAP to try it out. -- Kristian G. Kvilekval email:[email protected] office:(805)893-4276 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php