Re: [patch] new cdda module

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:40 +0200, Martin Schön wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 24.08.2005, 14:11 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson: 
> > In general i think the cdda backend is pretty silly. I'm not sure how
> > normal users will find it useful. Which is why we disabled the old one
> > by default and handle cdda:/// uris by launching a cd player.
> 
> My point is that a normal user does not need to know that theres's  a difference 
> between data and audio cds. It's exactly the same medium! How would a user 
> who has never ripped a cd do it? First idea is: copy them from the cd to a folder, 
> as he would do with a data cd. And don't tell me that's not the case. I have 
> observed it several times.

I think a setup where clicking on the audio cd brings up a cd player is
more intuitive than one that shows a list of mp3 files. The main
operation with an audio cd is playing it. Then, hopefully the cd player
app should make it mega-easy to rip the songs, possibly by having the cd
player itself be s-j or something like that.

The use of cdda sort of forces the default operation for an audio cd to
be "open a window with files so that you can rip the files", which is
not ideal imho.

> Btw, if I had never heard the term "cd ripper" I would not dare to run 
> it with a  disc in the drive. "what does it do? rip the disc apart?!"

Clearly we would not ever have the term "cd ripper" in the visible ui.

> > For a feature of such a limited use (imho) I think adding a gstreamer
> > dependency is a problem. I mean, we're already having problems with apps
> > like the gimp not using gnome-vfs due to its orbit/bonobo dependency.
> > Being able to load vfs files with the gimp is clearly more important
> > than a cdda backend.
> 
> I know this dependency sucks, and I suggest to make it a seperate
> module 
> (does gnome-vfs-extras still exist?). That would require all header
> files 
> for building a module to be installed in the include path. 2.10 does not
> do 
> this. Is/will it be fixed in cvs?

What is missing? You need to get the gnome-vfs-module-2.0 pkg-config
module of course.

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