Re: [Usability] Menu item in SJ

Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 11:26 +0000 schrieb Joachim Noreiko:
Is that the service set in the CD Database preferences
tool?

This is an issue I've been meaning to raise after I
noticed it during the UI review.

We have a preferences tool that claims to set CD
database preferences system-wide.
But very few audio apps use it -- someone said only
the CD player app does.

So we're basically misleading the user, and we have a
largely useless prefs tool.

I don't know enough about the subject to have an
opinion on the solution, but we should do one of:
a) remove the prefs tool completely
b) fix it so it's not pants and get all relevant apps
to use it

Leaving it as it is makes *us* look pants :(

Classic CDDB databases and CDDB itself suffers from fundamental
shortcomings, as pointed out by Jamie Zawinski [1]. MusicBrainz really
seems to be a better alternative. I'm strongly in favor ofditching the
current CDDB preferences dialog.

[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html

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Christian Neumair <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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