Re: [patch] new cdda module

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:32 +0200, Martin Schön wrote:
> An integrated rip option in a player app is nice, but I thinks users
> see an audio cd the same way as a data cd, so a logical way to rip is
> to copy the files it contains. 
> This way should be open to the users. If not, that would be quite
> confusing. "Why do I need an application for copying the data on one
> cd, while I can copy another's directly in the file manager?" We
> should not force the user to make a distiction between things that
> look (physically) the same to him. If they use the ripper
> function in the player app, everything's okay. But if they don't, we
> should provide the other way to make it easier for them.

This is where I disagree. Ripping *isn't* just the same as copying a
file. It involves things like selecting target format, encoding quality,
file naming, tagging etc. Now, this can be sort of hacked in by doing
things like virtual directories with various formats, automatic cddb
lookups and whatnot, but this all complicates the whole approach such
that its not really all that easy and logical anymore. It really exposes
the s-j settings and ui as a directory structure, which is not really
ideal.

Anyway, this is my opinion. The hard rule here is: No gstreamer deps in
gnome-vfs.

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