Ok

Mike Oliphant (oliphant nospam at ling.ed.ac.uk)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:38:14 +0000 (GMT)

Ok, I'll back off on my initial opposition to XML. I can see the
extensibility argument. As a user/cd-player-author, I just want to insure
that cd-lookup is a quick. low-bandwidth operation.

It seems as though everybody has great plans for a new format. This is
good, but what we really need is a practical, easily implementable,
more-or-less CDDB compatible system (at least at the server end), and we
need it soon.

We need a system that will allow us to get disc title/artist/track
information from some form of ID quickly and easily. Idealy, it will also
allow us to add additional information as time goes on.

I'll support such a format in my applications (Grip/GCD) if, and when, it
emerges.

Mike