Oh man.
This is bad bad bad news. I tried Jinzora about a year ago, and it was a huge mess. Totally unusable for collections more than a thousand or so tracks, and this odd mentality of “precompute everything before the user asks for it” just doesn’t work when you’ve got 10,000+ tracks in your collection.
I’ve been wishing that there was native MusicBrainz support in Netjuke, as well as support for a lot of other interesting features. Maybe now is the time to fork the Netjuke 1.x code base and start something interesting. I can see lots of things that need to be done:
Anyone interested?
Slacy,
Well I’m sorry you feel that way. If you haven’t tried us in over a year saying that were a “huge mess” is a bit unfair don’t you think? If you’d give 2.0 a go you’d see that we handle exceptionally large collections wonderfully (I have 60,000 tracks in my collection, quite a bit more than yours).
I wish you’d also see that the goal here is to bring the best of both projects together. We plan on bringing all the concepts of both to our 3.0 version in the future, and our 2.0 product now is stable and powerful. Oh, and we have a Musicbrainz metaservice now that can pull artist and album data from Musicbrainz (however it’s the slowest of the 5 providers we use!)
We also have plans to add each of the features you list above, and have plans to add many more than that.
I hope you’ll reconsider your comments, give Jinzora 2.0 a chance (especially before you slam it) and understand what we’re trying to do with our merger…
Thanks,
Ross
Oh, BTW forgot to say I’m the new Project Lead for the combined Jinzora+Netjuke project and the founder of Jinzora…
Okay, I’ll give the current Jinzora a try and see how the install goes. Should I be pulling a nightly or daily (CVS) or just going with the released Jinz2.0?
Do you guys have any thoughts about MusicBrainz integration? Thats another big thing that I was thinking would be fun to add — automatic TRM creation, and song identification and retagging. I find that ID3 tags are basically useless most of the time…