Re: cdindex

Greg Stein (gstein nospam at lyra.org)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:30:30 -0800

Tim P. Gerla wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 02:35:42PM +0000, Mike Oliphant wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Greg Stein wrote:
> > > > Another issue is local storage. There needs to be a way for applications
> > > > to store entries locally. Requiring mysql for this seems a bit excessive.
> > >
> > > Isn't this an issue solely for the clients?
> >
> > Yes, but it is still a standards issue. We want to have a common local
> > storage format for all players. Also, if we use a custom database format
> > at the server end, we might want to use the same code to handle the client
> > end.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> KISS! Why not just store the information in a plain text file, as it was
> downloaded by the server. Very simple, and it's easy to upload back for
> submissions.
>
> Let's try to grab the best ideas out of CDDB here.

That is Mike's intent. He has argued before for a *very* simple
client-side format since it will be relatively small (100's rather than
the central db's hundreds of thousands).

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/