[mb-devel] server list via libmusicbrainz

sarvesh sarvesh.com at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 17:21:04 UTC 2006


You could work around the problem by getting the HTML page
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MirrorServer and using a simple regular
expresstion 'http://.*\.musicbrainz\.org' to find all mirrors.
-Sarvesh
On 10/31/06, Andy Bridle <andy at bridle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > > Short of hard-coding the server URLs, I can't see how to let the user
> > > select a local server, or allow the client to swap servers if one is
> > > down/busy.
> >
> > Why not let the user to edit the server hostname/port
> > manually instead of selecting from a list?
> >
>
> Well, just in terms of the user-experience, I suppose. It would be nicer
> if
> the app presented the user with the list, rather than the user having to
> visit MusicBrainz to retrieve the list manually. Even slicker would be to
> have the app choose the server programatically, using the locale settings.
>
> But... c'est la vie. I'm sure there are more important things on the
> wish-list.
>
> Andy
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