Re: [Usability] SoundJuicer "Submit Track Names" is unusable.

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On 5/8/07, Rohan Oberoi <rohan oberoi cornell edu> wrote:

> Yes I am, and you haven't given a good reason not to have one other
> than "I hate freedb".

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html
in a much more comical manner than I could explain.
Bare in mind, I have written a freedb client
and I know just how shit it is
from both a user and a developer point of view...

> Fine.  But don't impose your opinion on every
> user of the stock Ubuntu install,

(The developer of sound-juicer is on holiday, so please don't think I
speak for him)
The software is Ross Burtons...therefore he gets to impose his will on
his software
You dont.

> I don't understand this ideological opposition to freedb.

Read the above link.

>  The query
> function in SJ apparently uses freedb anyway, when it can't find the
> CD in MB.

No it doesn't.
The only reference to FreeDB in the source is this comment

(From sj-metadata-musicbrainz.c)
/* Data imported from FreeDB is horrendeous for compilations,
* Try to split the 'Various' artist */

iain