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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    audiocd:/
From:       Thibaut Cousin <cousin () in2p3 ! fr>
Date:       2001-02-02 9:27:06
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Hello,

  I'm part of the french KDE team, and just upgraded to KDE 2.1 beta2... I 
was eager to try the new audiocd:/ ioslave. I have a recent machine (PIII 
450, CD-ROM 40X) with Debian Woody and kernel 2.4.0.
  First thing : I had a hard time starting it. Most of the time Konqueror 
does not understand and goes to Google instead... But after three or four 
tries it understood. The CDDB search was successful.
  After that, I cliqued on a wav file in the "By name" folder". It started to 
rip the CD. Two remarks here :

1) By default the track is ripped in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp. This 
causes problems, because most users never go in $HOME/.kde so they will not 
delete the wav files afterwards, or they will wonder where the wav file is 
gone to. Moreover, if I cancel the ripping before it is finished, the wav 
file is not deleted (it could ask if I want to delete it or not, for 
example). All of this creates the risk of saturating the /home partition 
because of "hidden" non-deleted files (and wav files are BIG).

2) When the ripping works, the speed seems OK, but sometimes it becomes 
really slow and halts after a while (with a "Waiting..." message). I could 
not reproduce the bug, it can happen with a CD, then not... Maybe it is 
Konqueror's fault.

  That's all for the problems. Now time for ideas :

- I think that for the end-user displaying the cda files is a bit confusing 
(what are they ?).

- Nothing happens when I click on a cda file (Konqueror runs, the small wheel 
on the top-right corner turns, but nothing more happens). I see only two 
useful things it could do : launch kscd on that track, or rip the track. I 
don't like the first possibility (if the user just wants to listen to the CD 
he lauches kscd, period). The second is better.

- By default there are five folders : By Name, By Track, dev, Information and 
<Title of the disc>. IMHO it is a bit too much. By Name and <Title of the 
disc> contain the same thing. Here is my suggestion (I would be happy to 
discuss it) :
	. at the "root" level I would put only a folder <Title of disc>.
	. inside it, I would have all the wav files with their CDDB names
	  and three folders : "Informations" (no change there),
	  "Raw tracks" (with the cda files) and "Untitled tracks" (with
	  the wav files named track01.wav... i.e. no space in the names).

  Do you think it is a good idea ? If you need testing, just ask, I'll be 
happy to oblige.
  See you,

-- 
Thibaut Cousin
email : cousin@in2p3.fr
web   : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr
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