Re: [iRATE-devel] Re: [gnomoradio-devel] iRATE radio

[Anthony Jones]

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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:39 am, Jim Garrison wrote:
> I am well aware of your project, and although I have not used it, I have
> to say that I am a supporter based on philosophical grounds, of course.
> When we announced Gnomoradio, we were not aware of its existence.
> Still, Gnomoradio had existed for a long time before the announcement
> (it had existed as a music player since 2000, and we had been "building
> the cathedral" so to say for a while before we officially released our
> goals.

Interestingly enough, I released the first version of iRATE only a week after 
I wrote the first line of code. I must admit I haven't had a chance to look 
at Gnomoradio yet but I intent to do so very soon.

> I too think it would be a good idea to work together as much as
> possible.  Although our implementations are very different, there are at
> least a few things in common where we can most definitely work together:
> rating mechanisms, metadata, and mutual philosophical support.  Our
> rating mechanism is not very good right now, but I am working on a new
> system.  I am interested to look into how you handle this.

I'd like to establish standards for the things we do have in common. I'm not 
entirely sure what these are yet.

> Gnomoradio also has the ability to download songs that do not have RDF
> descriptions since the 0.14 release.  Maybe we could even create a
> shared catalog of this type of content, but it seems that you have
> already done the burden of the work here :)

I have listed tracks which aren't CC licensed as well as ones which are. 
Because iRATE doesn't do any redistributing I haven't been too worried about 
the licensing side of things. The intention is to fuss more about licensing 
later on down the track.

We've been concentrating mainly on the client code over the last year. The 
server code is a really hacky implementation I knocked up the first weekend I 
worked on iRATE. The server hasn't changed substantially since then except 
for some improvements in the correlation code.

Anthony
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