[Playlist] Current state of things

[Tesch, Ben]

As long as this data is still in there, I would say XML is fine.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:playlist-bounces at musicbrainz.org]On Behalf Of 
> Matthias Friedrich
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:01 AM
> To: New playlist format discussion
> Subject: Re: [Playlist] Current state of things
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, 2004-03-30, Kevin Marks wrote:
> > I think removing track, artist etc. names from the format is a huge 
> > mistake.
> > They are exactly the kinds of metadata that people want to use to 
> > describe things.
> 
> > Yes, they are not definitive, but without these there is no 
> way to do a 
> > human matching fallback.
> 
> Right. I think nobody wants to remove that data because it's more than
> just a fallback. It makes playlists readable for humans, helps to
> generate XHTML representations etc. In all syntax examples on 
> the wiki,
> artist and track names were included where available.
> 
> Fuzzy matching against the user's media library is also important. A
> player/CR would have to take one or several of the following 
> steps until
> a track can be resolved to a local file:
> 
>  1. Check the list of cids and try to map them to local files
>  2. Check the list of ids to see if one of them maps to a local file
>     or download a file from the web
>  3. Try a fuzzy match using the provided metadata
> 
> The precedence isn't always clear. One cid could point to an internet
> music store. But you usually don't want to buy a song if you already
> have it on disk, so here the id takes precedence over the cid.
> 
> bye,
> 	Matthias
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