Re: Common music database?

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

> Consider that Jamie here is writing Tracker which is somewhat like
> Beagle, another indexer which is a lot more popular.  That's not
> going to stop him from pursuing his goal of trying to make it
> official. :-)

Tracker is significantly different from Beagle. Beagle AFAIK is just an 
indexer whereas Tracker is a combination Database/Indexer (the embedded 
mysql also being a combo database/indexer).

This means that Tracker is way more powerful and more useful in 
situations like these where you need a database as well as indexer.

There is nothing stopping Tracker from say optionally turning off its 
internal indexer and using Beagle instead and thereby giving everyone a 
choice of what to use. So Tracker is flexible enough to be used as just 
a database or just an indexer or both which should keep everyone happy 
(I hope!)


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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