Re: Proposal for fields in DB

Ian Clarke (iic nospam at dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:16:44 +0000 (BST)

> Nearly all of these fields should be available per track too (and
> per piece if we have that concept).

Agreed.

> The list could go on indefinitely. Perhaps this is the problem: there
> are just too many fields that someone might think are important for
> some particular use, but most people will think are excess baggage.

I think this will be nescessary, we should allow arbitrarily named fields,
but should set some (or perhaps quite a few) standard fields, or
reccomended field names such as track names and authors, none of which
need to be used.

Ian.