On 3 June 2013 18:08, Mathieu Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 2013-06-03 16:38, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
>
>> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 15:32 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 2013-06-03 07:48, Luc Pionchon a écrit :
>>> > Having “real life” datasets help to see how the software scales in
>>> > real environment.
>>> >
>>> > In the case of an Artist list, as an example, you may have 50 artists
>>> > in your own music library. *Plus*, if you have 10 compilations (movie
>>> > soundtrack? dance compilation?) with each 30 individual artists , and
>>> > tadam… +300, your artist list is flooded with artists (whom you never
>>> > heard) with a single track. Your artist list becomes useless,
>>> > although
>>> > it looked so nice and clean and easy on the mockups.
>>>
>>> There are plenty of good free/libre songs out there, you know?[1]
>>
>>
>> Except that you don't want to download 100 GB of songs to test a
>> software. Blank songs would compress to almost nothing, and more or less
>> to the size of the metadata once tarball'ed up. It should be possible to
>> offer tens of thousands of songs with a download size in megs, not gigs.
>>
>> The construction of good test cases with the metdata is more important
>> than the contents of the files.

yes, exactly.



> Hopefuly, you mean that only in the very specific case of a software design
> process. ;)

yes, it is about software design.

For music, the audio stream is not needed. The metadata is.
Same for videos.
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