On 5/8/07, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soundjuicer should save the data locally for next time you put the CD in. > That is a bug
Yes, that sounds like a bug, but it isn't the main problem. If I want to re-rip from machine #2, fixing that bug doesn't help me. If twenty other people have already typed in the information on their local machines, but not submitted it because you made it too hard for them by giving them no other option than MB, that doesn't help me either. > It has nothing to do with usability. > It defintely shouldn't depend on whether or not you submit it to some > random database online. Yes, it should. There is a reason every major CD ripper has the capability to submit to freedb. It is important functionality for a CD ripper. > So really, you're just pissed of because there isn't a button to > submit to freedb Yes I am, and you haven't given a good reason not to have one other than "I hate freedb". Fine. But don't impose your opinion on every user of the stock Ubuntu install, in direct opposition to the practice of most CD ripper software. Make yourself an executable that doesn't have the button, and use it on your system. > And you're wrapping it in the "Won't somebody think of the usability" > argument... Yes, I am. Convention is a big part of usability. People expect certain functionality in a certain way. If it isn't provided because a few developers have got their knickers in a twist about freedb, then the system is just turning people off for no good reason. > Nothing should (*) use freedb > the soon it dies > the better. You have a right to your opinion, but not to impose it on others, and certainly not without providing an equally workable alternative, which MB is not. When you have an alternative which provides the same functionality as freedb, fine, kill freedb, be my guest. > The solution to this whole thing is to go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org > and file a bug > (WARNING: This will send you to a &*#$% web page and require you to > fill in some stuff) > asking for Soundjuicer to save the data locally when you change it. Saving data locally doesn't fix the problem. > And as bastien said, the musicbrainz site could be better, but thats > nothing to do with us Musicbrainz has nothing to do with this discussion, except for why on earth the SJ developers chose to associate a web link to it with the Submit menu item in SJ. I don't understand this ideological opposition to freedb. The query function in SJ apparently uses freedb anyway, when it can't find the CD in MB. So what the #$%$ is wrong with *saving* to freedb when you're already happy to *query* it???? After all, it's not like SJ is freedb-judenfrei and you're battling to keep it that way, is it? The devil is already in the #$%$ machine, how about just trying to make the thing usable and checking your ideological purity at the door? Rohan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
