Wil Shipley reveals Delicious Library 2 details

Leopard Ships on March 15th, a GM is expected on March 1st, After Macworld on the 9th Apple will be showing off the "top secret" features and finally put them in the builds for developers.

narco, let me expound on stefan's comment that yes, DL does support vinyl.

if DL doesn't find your album at amazon, which is more often than not the case, you can change the 'format' to something such as 'vinyl,' 'EP' or 'LP' and it will change the size of the icon to a 12" sleeve. the only bummer is that if you have 7", 10" or some other size, they still only show up as 12".

i had an email conversation maybe nine months ago with a developer, who said he'd present my suggestions to have different size icons and see if they might be able to work them in. we both admitted that the audience for this functionality was limited, but i have my fingers crossed for the new release.

I think DL is pretty nice, I can't figure out why it gets so much hate. I like Dvdpedia too, they both have strengths. This just seems like another "we hate flashy GUI's" attack. What is wrong with flashy GUIs? It makes things look cooler?

Against my better judgement I registered DL in Sept. even though rumors of version 2 were already floating around. I sure hope they offer FREE upgrades for persons who registered after a certain date.

Oooh, mysql. That's got my attention. Now, for the win, will I be able to keep various album- and track-level metadata, such as composer, duration and notes?

One of my biggest complaints about DL (apart from its sluggishness) is the lack of detail in the data it stores. I like lots of useful data, and don't really give a flying flip about useless crap like how much my CD is currently selling for on Amazon.

And why DOES DL only get data from Amazon? What's wrong with the CDDB and FreeDB? I've been scratching my head over that one for some time.

I'll pay the price for a whole new license if the new DL 2.0 works the way I hope it will.

i doubt they're using a mysql database. most likely the sqlite, the same way safari stores the rss feed information.

*puts on marketer hat* i've been working on what could be described as "delicious library online": http://lib.rario.us

i also have a delicious library import option if you're using that, and the site also has rss feeds of your collection, and an csv excel export for backing up or using elsewhere... i hope some of you find some use for it. :)

"We don't actually know when that is, which adds an extra element of excitement to this release." lol he's really trying to hype it...

'New in DL2 will be support for "MUCH, MUCH larger" collections (thanks to what I assume will be the use of Apple's CoreData)"

Nope, he said on the blog entry hes going to switch from xml to a full fledged mysql database. So, mysql is going to be the savior here, not CoreData.

it will be a paid update.

he says 2.0

often, sharewares editor changes the major number version (2.0 here) when they want to emphasize the Bold move toward new features and the need to pay for it.

Yes. I want to know if its a paid upgrade too... Im not a massive fan of paid upgrades unless it actually offers something which a massive massive step up from what went before.

Second, yes, Delicious Library supports Vinyls. I discovered this the other day. Just scan the Vinyl in, and if youre lucky, itll find it on Amazon.