Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 11:26 +0000 schrieb Joachim Noreiko: > Is that the service set in the CD Database preferences > tool? > > This is an issue I've been meaning to raise after I > noticed it during the UI review. > > We have a preferences tool that claims to set CD > database preferences system-wide. > But very few audio apps use it -- someone said only > the CD player app does. > > So we're basically misleading the user, and we have a > largely useless prefs tool. > > I don't know enough about the subject to have an > opinion on the solution, but we should do one of: > a) remove the prefs tool completely > b) fix it so it's not pants and get all relevant apps > to use it > > Leaving it as it is makes *us* look pants :( Classic CDDB databases and CDDB itself suffers from fundamental shortcomings, as pointed out by Jamie Zawinski [1]. MusicBrainz really seems to be a better alternative. I'm strongly in favor ofditching the current CDDB preferences dialog. [1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html -- Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
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