Re: Common music database?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:16:20PM +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> My reason for bringing this into attention has multiple reasons:
> 
> Number 1:
> ------------------
> 
> Dave (McCabe), what's the status of your progress of the derived spec based
> on MPRIS?

This is the first I've heard of this.  Or maybe I didn't read your previous
posts carefully enough.

> If i may speak frankly, just because "you're GNOME", you can't just go and
> say/think "well, when_ever_ we release
> our spec, people will have to follow that anyway, since we're GNOME, and the
> BMP guys are just someone". Maybe
> that's unfair and doing you unjustice and you're simply not having time for
> this, but would you in _that_ case just give
> us a small one liner note that this is the fact so someone else can work on
> this?

Well, obviously most of this stuff is volunteer so it's likely
whenever he's about to do it.  But I don't think anybody is doing
anything dictatorial here.  It's not a spec unless the major music
players like banshee, rhythmbox, and others decide to approve
the spec.

We look at people who use the db as "ISV"'s who want to be able to 
create a music player in GNOME.  So I don't think we should approach
things as GNOME centric attitude and I don't think that's what is 
happening here..

> It's close to trivially simple for players/apps to implement the server-side
> part using libmpris without removing their own protocol, as well as for
> clients to implement that instead of various specific interfaces.
> 

Can you explain what libmpris is?

sri