Kamion migration and backup tool

[Jeff Mitchell]

Ian Monroe wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Would it make sense to use musicbrainz UUID here to identify tracks
>> rather than our own method?  It seems like musicbrainz UUID is become
>> a commonly used method of identifying a unique track, xspf supports
>> it, xesam supports it, and I think some forms of metadata support it.
>>     
>
> XSPF supports anything, its just that the API docs suggest
> musicbrainz's UUID as a possible unique identifier. We could also put
> the checksum that Amarok 1.4 uses internally if we wanted into our
> XSPF's.
>
> I still don't trust musicbrainz enough, it used to do stuff like hang
> Amarok. And most linux users have musicbrainz without MP3 support.
>   
Agreed.  Neither MusicBrainz nor Last.fm need to be dependencies for AFT
to work, so I'd rather not make them dependencies for it.  AFT should
track files, and MusicBrainz/Last.fm should identify songs.  Two
separate but complimentary goals.

--Jeff