JSonnabend Wrote: > That characterization is as self-serving as it is inaccurate. Slim > collects limited information from file tags and allows -zero- central > management of your data. And it allows for a bare minimum of > information at that (quick, tell me how many tracks you have released > between 1984 and 1986 on Grammy Award winning albums? How many covers > of Bob Dylan songs do you have? Live tracks from 1972? Jazz Christmas > albums?). It's not much of a -database-, it's really just a data store > for an audio streaming program. >
This has been an interesting discussion. One question: It seems that the root of your dilema is that you have many tracks that are untagged. Shouldn't CATraxx be able to tag this music for you? If so, wouldn't the ID3 tags generated by CATraxx serve as a sort of relational key between the two databases? It would seem that you would be able to let the Slimserver DB just act as the data store for an audio streaming program and perform your serious queries in CATraxx as long as there was something linking them together. In a normal relational database, the link would be some sort of id field used as a foreign key. In your case, why can't the link be the ID3 tag? -edit:- doh, beaten by Pale Blue Ego, who put it more succinctly than me anway. -- NWP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
