Re: The competition (CDDB2)

Stephen van Egmond (svanegmond nospam at home.com)
Thu, 02 Dec 1999 21:04:13 EST

>http://www.cdindex.org/dtd/CDInfo.dtd

Oh, yes, that, thanks. Sorry for missing it.

There was talk of extending it to include lyrics. But as it is, are
there any objections to using that as the formal, very-difficult-to-
change-in-the-future data type for CD information interchange?

The issue for developing information adapters is only that you could
build a valid XML document conforming to this DTD from any of the data
sources. As I read it, it is possible to do this with freedb, since
the IdInfo tag is optional.

As it is, I'm happy to take what's in this DTD and write an API around
it for submission and fetching. The lower levels of the API, for
parsing SCSI TOCs and launching web browsers (in case the CD player
doesn't want to present the UI) can be worked out later.

/Steve