The Client.
- Even if one should continue to use a web interface, which I don't
think is a good idea, the client should have a GUI.
- It should be fairly simple to look for data in Microsoft's CD-player
"database". Looking in the off line CDDB database might however
contaminate the code.
- It should notice the user that there is already a disc present with
the same ID, if that is the case, when he tries to do an entry
submission.
- Clarify what "Artist" means. If London symphony orchestra plays a leid
by Edvard Grieg, who is the artist?
The Database.
- All entries should be stored as Unicode. Or to be more correct, the
database should input and output unicode data, how it is stored is of no
concern to me. If we are to get an IETF approval of any protocols they
have to support unicode according to their new guidelines.
- I think that songs should be kept in one database and albums in
another. The albums database would then only have references to the
songs. All CD:s containing one song (singles, albums, compilations,
albums with different TOC) will then be affected by a update in the
songdatabase. One could possibly use the ISRC as part of the
identification of a song. I've been told that the ISRC is encoded on the
Q-channel on many CD:s.
-- /Martin Nilsson