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* Daniel Pittman <daniel@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-11-07 00:50]:
> Oh, no. Not at all. Take a look at a CDDB record some time.
If you want an overload of hate, go look at the ridiculously
overcomplicated protocol. (I tried to implement a client before I
knew what I was getting myself into.)
Also, have you downloaded a CDDB database sometime? Millions of
files. I was reading of someone's despair a few years ago who
tried to implement some sort of "list latest additions" for his
CDDB server because of the boneheaded structure.
I'm sure all the server software is totally braindead. How could
it be otherwise when every data structure and format it relies on
is so utterly spastic.
Of course, a lot of the data is low-quality. And that's before
you factor in the ambiguities caused by the violently broken
format ("tonight, our guests in your favourite guess-the-charset
show are...").
The whole thing is pure and unadulterated hate from end to end.
It's a wonder that anything with CDDB written somewhere on it
works at all.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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