Re: Food for thought - GNOME-2.8 and multimedia

["Ronald S. Bultje" <R S Bultje students uu nl>]

Hi Ross,

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 09:02, Ross Burton wrote: 
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 17:55, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> > * there's a patch in bugzilla for GStreamer-based CD support in gnome-cd.
> > This has the positive side-effect that it now also access CDDB and thus
> > becomes a whole lot better accessible. Probably needs to go into GNOME
> > 2.8.
> 
> I've been pondering over the last six months or so a replacement for
> gnome-cd which is largely based on the Sound Juicer interface which can
> also rip CDs.  I find the current gnome-cd interface pretty ugly and
> unusable, but as I've hardly the time to maintain SJ at the moment I
> doubt I'll be able to code this up shortly.
I've also pondered with proposing such a combination for GNOME-media.
Problem is that every time I think about it, I think about how it could
cause all sort of legal issues ("backupping CDs" isn't something that
our favourite organizations such as the MPAA are fond of), and put the
idea back to pondering mode for a while longer.

It'd rock, though. Go for it. ;).

Ronald