Re: Common music database?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:58:18PM +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Tracker is significantly different from Beagle. Beagle AFAIK is just an 
> indexer whereas Tracker is a combination Database/Indexer (the embedded 
> mysql also being a combo database/indexer).

Sorry I keep doing the beagle thing because it's what I'm familiar
with.  Hopefully, you (and others) don't believe I'm trying to start
something confrontational by pitting one against the other.

> There is nothing stopping Tracker from say optionally turning off its 
> internal indexer and using Beagle instead and thereby giving everyone a 
> choice of what to use. So Tracker is flexible enough to be used as just 
> a database or just an indexer or both which should keep everyone happy 
> (I hope!)

That's good stuff!

sri