[haiku-development] Re: Dealing with AudioCDs

Humdinger wrote:
Apparently the cddb lookup daemon uses the folder /boot/home/cd/ to store all the details it finds out as text files with the name "[Artist] - [Album]" and the info to artist, album, CD playing time, and all song titles and their playing time.
No. The CDPlayer app does that. The cddb lookup daemon is not done yet (I needed to fix BNetBuffer and forgot about it. Will do this this weekend).
These text files also get an attribute (CD:key) with an ID to recognize a re-inserted CD. Plus an attribute for artist/album/song (CD:tracks) and an empty genre (Audio:Genre) attribute.
Again, if this is inside ~/cd dir, this is CD Player, not the cddb lookup daemon.
This is the first source for confusion: I kept changing the text file and wondered why the changes didn't take. Then I found out about the attributes... 

The attributes where? In the CD mount point or in the ~cd dir?
I see the advantage of using attributes, but IMHO in this case, the contents of the text file should be parsed and used by applications, esp. because:
No, they should not. As soon as the cddb lookup dameon is done, it will handle all this. And the user can still manually change whatever he/she needs.
If a CD isn't found by cddb a generic "Artist - AudioCD" is created in ~/cd/. 

Again, CD Player.
... Strange, I swear it _was_ created. After deleting it and reinserting the CD it isn't created any more, though... 

Because you didn't start CD Player again? :)
Anyway: It makes sense to create these "unknown-artist" files and let the user enter the info by hand. That's not easily possible when the data is used from the attribute.
This data is only used by CD Player. I gues sthe reason it keeps the data there is because you can use CD Player even if the CD is not mounted while cdda-fs requires the CD to be mounted. CD Player could still use cdda-fs's data as founf in its settings dir, tough.
Then there's cdda, which stores its info on AudioCDs at ~/config/settings/cdda/. These are non-user editable files with cryptic names. Wouldn't is simplify things, if the cddb method, files and locations were reused? 

No. CD Player should use CDDA's stuff. Not the other way around.
You could still have a user open an un-identified CD and fill in the artist/album/track attributes and have cdda convert and merge that into the text file. 

CDDA-FS handles that.

-Bruno

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