From amarok-devel Sat Oct 13 15:44:42 2007 From: Jeff Mitchell Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:44:42 +0000 To: amarok-devel Subject: Re: Kamion migration and backup tool Message-Id: <4710E7EA.5020203 () emailgoeshere ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=amarok-devel&m=119229034304909 Ian Monroe wrote: > On 10/11/07, Dan Meltzer wrote: > >> Would it make sense to use musicbrainz UUID here to identify tracks >> rather than our own method? It seems like musicbrainz UUID is become >> a commonly used method of identifying a unique track, xspf supports >> it, xesam supports it, and I think some forms of metadata support it. >> > > XSPF supports anything, its just that the API docs suggest > musicbrainz's UUID as a possible unique identifier. We could also put > the checksum that Amarok 1.4 uses internally if we wanted into our > XSPF's. > > I still don't trust musicbrainz enough, it used to do stuff like hang > Amarok. And most linux users have musicbrainz without MP3 support. > Agreed. Neither MusicBrainz nor Last.fm need to be dependencies for AFT to work, so I'd rather not make them dependencies for it. AFT should track files, and MusicBrainz/Last.fm should identify songs. Two separate but complimentary goals. --Jeff _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel