On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:27:43PM +0000, Dave Swegen did utter: > Hi! Over the past few months I've been trying out a number of CD > players, and have been slightly annoyed by the fact that different > players deal with local cddb databases in different ways, resulting in a > number of (sometimes incompatible) db storage schemes, and shedloads of > dot-directories. Often this means that symlinks have to manually > created, which of course is a PITA. > > What I would like to see is a policy covering how cddb-capable programs > should behave. Perhaps this is outside the scope of Debian, but if it > isn't, and there seems to be some interest I would be happy to put > together some sort of proposal. I guess that it would require that all > programs use ~/.cddb/ for user dbs, and /var/cddb for system-wide dbs. > > Please feel free to rip apart the idea :)
It's a good idea - one I've started to look at myself in fact - to the point I have a shell scripted cddbd running locally (thanks to Robert Sander, I got this from freedb.org), as well as a homemade script to get the disc-id from the current audio CD, and retrieve the appropriate entry from freedb.org - and dump it into /var/lib/cddb/<path> ...At some point I plan to combine the retrieval program into the existing cddb.sh script to give me a fully working, local/minimal cddbd - which I'd then point all local cddb-aware CDplayers at. But I digress. A policy that all cddb-aware program use freedb.org would be very good IMHO, and I cannot see why anyone would object. Standard locations for local-user and system-wide dbs are also a good-thing :) .../Cameron -- | nemo | Life's highway traverses | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Owen Cameron | the indigo wastelands. | http://www.net.house.cx/~nemo/ |
