Re: Sound Juicer for 2.4?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:13, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:04, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > How do you launch it?  Does it have a menu entry?  Should it have a menu
> > entry?  Could we hook it up to magicdev and/or gnome-cd?
> 
> At present it has a menu entry "CD Ripper" under Sound & Video.  There
> is talk that it would be better to be integrated into gnome-cd, and
> Colin Walters has expressed interest in integrating it into Rhythmbox as
> well.

It is my sense that both/either of these would be much more appropriate
than having s-j be a standalone module in the desktop.

Sadly, I can't exactly put my finger on why I feel this way. I think it
is basically something along the lines of 'why is ripping so distinct
from other uses of a CD that it merits it's own application?' It seems
to me that either the KDE solution (look at CD in konqueror, drag the
files, *boom* you have music files) or the apple solution (open CD
player, hit rip button, *boom* you have files) both seem more
obvious/intuitive to me, no matter how clean and lightweight the s-j UI
is. 

Sorry that this is so vague- I hope someone else who feels similarly can
pick up the ball and make what I'm saying more clear :)

Luis

> > > It does need more work before I'd consider it "ready", for example the
> > > musicbrainz dependency could be removed (changed to gnome-media) and it
> > > doesn't monitor the CD drive.
> > 
> > What is musicbrainz for?  If it is a necessary and stable dependency, I
> > suppose it's alright (though their name needz work).  It seems that
> > integrating this into gnome-media might make some sense anyway.
> 
> Musicbrainz is essentially an album metadata server, similar to CDDB but
> more powerful. You can lookup CDs, albums, artists and follow the
> metadata links. Musicbrainz can also identify a song from a sample, so
> can be used to identify random Ogg/MP3s.
> 
> I think that Musicbrainz should be available in gnome-cd -- it would be
> nice for it to be able to give a list of other albums the current artist
> has done for example.
> 
> Also, if musicbrainz had an identical GObject-like API as CDDB in
> gnome-media, sj could use either...
> 
> All in all, as much as I would like SJ to be in G2.4, I would also like
> SJ to develop into a complete solution to the audio CD issue.  Really
> the interface is just a test bed for the underlying SjExtractor GObject.
> 
> Regards,
> Ross