Well this started something. Remember, this topic started in the thread about making MC easier to start using for new users, hence they were the target of my suggestion.
Where I was coming from was the parallel to a physical library:
You go to the library, browse or search using an index, and then go collect the book you want.
You go to the MC library, browse or search using an index, and then play the media file you want.
I was seeking to get away from the idea of moving media files into one place, and to use terminology that would be familiar to anyone who has been through a school system that included a library.
People understand that when you import goods, you move the goods from a source country to a destination country. When you import records in a database, you copy a record into a database, which could be a concern with media, even when it is understood that the original record is left intact. Now I have two copies of all my media files?! My hard disk will fill up!
Database is the correct, but a little intimidating, computer term. Catalog is more like what MC is doing.
I guess some libraries I have used called their overall indexes a Catalogue, or used the two terms interchangeably. So Catalog/Catalogue would make sense.
Personally, I think you should use the "correct" term, which would be a Database.
Well as Jim says, it is correct. But as above, this suggestion was aimed at avoiding the "technical shock" of MC to a new user, and remove the potential concern or need to explain what "importing" is to a use who has an existing media collection.
The Catalogue is stored in a Database, and it is created by Indexing all your media files. That sits well with me. Or Indexing could be replaced by Cataloguing. (Forgive the American vs Australian English.)
Changing the name at this stage would provide some confusion of its own. Old versions/new versions, wiki, forum posts, etc.
Yes, I thought of that as well. It is a big issue, mostly for existing users and people who have already installed the new, easier to install and start using, MC.
Brand new users who have just downloaded the program and started the installation process without reading the forums, which is probably a large percentage of new users, will avoid the confusion over "importing", but when they start searching for information on how to do things using the forum, it will get a little confusing.
Whether this is considered seriously depends on whether JRiver want to address the new user shock and ease of introduction to the program, I guess.
