[haiku-development] Re: Dealing with AudioCDs

Axel Dörfler wrote:


Maybe the cdda-fs data backend could be reworked
to be also human readable and editable.
I'm not sure why this should happen. Besides, it just uses a plain text format IIRC; only the names are cryptic, as that's what it uses to find the CDs (every CD has its own unique ID).
I'd be totally fine if the CDPlayer, cdda-fs and cddb all use the same data files in one location and that changes by the user should be done directly via cdda-fs on a mounted CD. BTW, I'd make sense to have the relevant attributes shown by default when double-clicking an AudioCD, i.e. not Name, Size, Modified, but Track, Artist, Album, Title and Playing Time.
And I agree that ~/cd is too conspicuous and should be moved down the config hierarchy, probably to /boot/common/settings/. People sharing a computer most of the time also share their music. Yes, and other things as well... :) If that means that CDPlayer can't play unmounted CDs any more, I think we could skip that feature.
Right now cdda files are not plain text. At least StyledEdit complains. IMO the name of those files should be "[Artist]-[Album]" and have them IDed by an attribute like CD:ID. That way a user can see what's what and maybe delete specific files, e.g. to force re-identification. With attributes we really don't need cryptic names. 

Regards,
Humdinger

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