Re: Integrated CD ripping/playing (instead of goobox/sound juicer)

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:48:12PM +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Isak Savo wrote:
> 
> >>neither of them, with good reasons. Nautilus is too limited in what it
> >>can know or do, it's far out of scope for a file manager (imo).
> 
> >>From a technical stand point, perhaps. From a users point, why? What's
> >the difference between copying normal files and music "files"?
> 
> For one, you don't usually encode normal files to a lossy format when 
> copying them. Sure this is a technical point of view, but one that 
> concerns the user in the end - isn't it reasonable to expect that 
> copying a music file doesn't degrade sound quality?

I'd agree with you, except that I think it depends on the user, and I'd 
guess that most non-technical users would:

 - have no clue what lossy or lossless means
 - would expect their music to show up in a usable form (ie: ready for
   their mp3 player or listening)
 - be surprised that extracting a CD of music fills 700mb of hard drive
   space when they can fit 40 songs onto their 256 mb mp3 player

If I as a technical user was in this situation I'd expect that I'd been 
asked before what was format it was ripping to or it would ask me in the 
process. 

Personally I think that a wizard, or preference setting, or some fancy
UI element to ask the user (and explain to them what's going on) what
format the music should be ripped at.  IE: a rip button, a dialog
popping up after they finish the drop that starts a quick wizard, or
something like that.

Alan

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