Yes.
Better word choice would have helped.
The depth of CDDB's database is evident by the higher than expected hit rate on getting a valid match. Even if the match is fuzzy, the candidate matches are proabably include the one you wanted.
Not always, but more often than not.
This is what I meant by watershed... a slowly accumulated mass of data which will sustain their growth by it's diverse collection and depth of resource.
Call it what you want.
They have the relationships of TOC's to disc titles and that's the value in their holding.
FreeDB needs to accumulate depth of TOC's to be a reasonable alternative and to really completely shutout CDDB from the biz. Really, if the same depth can be re-created in freedb. WHO NEEDS CDDB anyway?
The real value to CDDB in particular is that they have accumulated a watershed of TOC's to CD's in the world.
When you insert that disc, it's not just dumb luck that CDDB knows it's one disc from another. As you all probably know the same "release title" can have different TOC's due to the disc mastering and pressing process.
The quaility of the CDDB service is that you all have helped make it a deep watershed of TOC inventory for every title.
In the game of matching a CD to it's meta data it's important to realize that the signature of the track offsets (it's Table Of Contents) varies from pressing to pressing. If CDDB is able to aquire the unique TOC's of the same CD release then they are better in position to give accurate data once the next query comes for it.
And so on.. so pretty soon for any given CD title, like Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (which has over 100 different TOC's from all the pressings that it has had over the years) you're bound to be farily high on rate of successful query..
Which is what the QOS issue is about too.
CDDB has this watershed of data, and they are going to leverage it to it's maximum, which means makign deals with software/service vendors to get revenue for every player/service deal is available.
In the mean time it would be really great to just re-aim your player/system to freedb and use them.
Let freedb accumulate their database to actually be competitive with CDDB in the spirit of collecting the most CD meta data that is out there. The end result should hopefully be a viable alternative to CDDB which is free, open and really out of reach of any MPAA or similar forces.
The information is free, and needs to remain free.
This is possible and quite easy to do. Why more Napster users aren't installing a freedb plugin that will automatically "snarf" up the cd meta data from their own disc and send it to freedb is interesting.. Why people using Napster aren't already on the bandwagon is interestin. Millions of Napster users all with a plugin to feed the freedb database? Nice.
CTO?
As an executive, you must have had hand in watching the train wreck unfold, maybe even partly to blame.
The downturn in the economy doesn't mean every company is doomed, just the ones that were lame to begin with. Contain the spill.
Ask yourself, could this have been prevented? And if so, what can you do as CTO to facilitate change?
If the answer is nothing, or scant then you've already answered your own larger question -- you had no real mantle of authority to begin with, and certainly were deluding yourself all along.
Stay where you are. We don't want your bad juju spreading around to other once healthy companies.
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Yes. Better word choice would have helped. The depth of CDDB's database is evident by the higher than expected hit rate on getting a valid match. Even if the match is fuzzy, the candidate matches are proabably include the one you wanted. Not always, but more often than not. This is what I meant by watershed... a slowly accumulated mass of data which will sustain their growth by it's diverse collection and depth of resource. Call it what you want. They have the relationships of TOC's to disc titles and that's the value in their holding. FreeDB needs to accumulate depth of TOC's to be a reasonable alternative and to really completely shutout CDDB from the biz. Really, if the same depth can be re-created in freedb. WHO NEEDS CDDB anyway?
The real value to CDDB in particular is that they have accumulated a watershed of TOC's to CD's in the world.
When you insert that disc, it's not just dumb luck that CDDB knows it's one disc from another. As you all probably know the same "release title" can have different TOC's due to the disc mastering and pressing process.
The quaility of the CDDB service is that you all have helped make it a deep watershed of TOC inventory for every title.
In the game of matching a CD to it's meta data it's important to realize that the signature of the track offsets (it's Table Of Contents) varies from pressing to pressing. If CDDB is able to aquire the unique TOC's of the same CD release then they are better in position to give accurate data once the next query comes for it.
And so on.. so pretty soon for any given CD title, like Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (which has over 100 different TOC's from all the pressings that it has had over the years) you're bound to be farily high on rate of successful query..
Which is what the QOS issue is about too.
CDDB has this watershed of data, and they are going to leverage it to it's maximum, which means makign deals with software/service vendors to get revenue for every player/service deal is available.
In the mean time it would be really great to just re-aim your player/system to freedb and use them.
Let freedb accumulate their database to actually be competitive with CDDB in the spirit of collecting the most CD meta data that is out there. The end result should hopefully be a viable alternative to CDDB which is free, open and really out of reach of any MPAA or similar forces.
The information is free, and needs to remain free.
This is possible and quite easy to do. Why more Napster users aren't installing a freedb plugin that will automatically "snarf" up the cd meta data from their own disc and send it to freedb is interesting.. Why people using Napster aren't already on the bandwagon is interestin. Millions of Napster users all with a plugin to feed the freedb database? Nice.
CTO? As an executive, you must have had hand in watching the train wreck unfold, maybe even partly to blame. The downturn in the economy doesn't mean every company is doomed, just the ones that were lame to begin with. Contain the spill. Ask yourself, could this have been prevented? And if so, what can you do as CTO to facilitate change? If the answer is nothing, or scant then you've already answered your own larger question -- you had no real mantle of authority to begin with, and certainly were deluding yourself all along. Stay where you are. We don't want your bad juju spreading around to other once healthy companies.