[haiku-development] Re: Dealing with AudioCDs

Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Humdinger wrote:
> 
> > Apparently the cddb lookup daemon uses the
> > folder /boot/home/cd/ to store all the details
 ... 
> No. The CDPlayer app does that.
 ...
> > 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.

+1

Maybe the cdda-fs data backend could be reworked
to be also human readable and editable.

I've always disliked ~/cd, thinking it should have
been stored somewhere in ~/config/settings/ or
~/config/etc. I prefer that primarily first* order
data files (documents**?) be stored in ~/
Well, apart from stuff going into ~/config/ ...

* App settings might be considered second order data
and weak meta data may be considered third order.
Does this taxonomy make sense to you?

** I consider email files to be documents. People
files too, I guess, in spite of their zero-size,
all attribute nature. If I was lord of all things
Haiku I'd give People files some vCard contents 
(unless there's something truly better around),
have these be considered authoritative and any
exported data attributes considered extra and
primarily a means to speed up searching. Like any
other embedded metadata, e.g. ID3 or EXIF, when
exported to attributes.

/Jonas.

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