[mythtv] MythMusic: MetaLibrarian RFC

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 02:56 pm, Matt wrote:
> hmmmm... reminds me of Sony
> (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117910,00.asp).  I think
> it's a bad  judgment call to write-off the feature to encode into mp3.
>  98% of my music library is MP3 and the rest is AAC.  I do _not_ want
> to introduce another format, or have to re-rip all my CD's into Ogg or
> anythings else.  Is it ok to have multiple formats... sure, but why?
> Audio compression formats are a dime a dozen, yet the majority of
> users have no desire to switch from using MP3.  Also, I have an
> iPod... I don't want Ogg and I never will.  Personally, this doesn't
> matter to me much either way because I don't use myth to rip, but I
> think it's a nice feature that any PVR with a music management plugin
> should have.  Why degress?  Unfortunantly, I'm not a developer but can
> it honestly be _that_ hard to accomplish these goals using MP3 versus
> other formats?  I mean, a large large percentage of open source and
> commercial software over the past 3 years have been directly related
> to the boom of MP3s so it doesn't seem like it's got to be that hard.
>
> Either way... I don't chime in much, and in all honesty, whatever you
> decide I won't mind, but I just think you can't throw out the idea of
> encoding into MP3's that easily.

See, you're not using a standalone system.  Why couldn't you simply continue 
encoding your music with whatever you used previously, and not use mythmusic 
for that task?  Your whole argument's spurious because of that.

Isaac