Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 510 from 2003/2/25
From: France
Quote:
Yasu wrote:
I think it would be good if you didn't have to re-read all the files in the playlist everytime you load it. With a couple of thousand MP3's it not only take a lot of time, it also make my HDD work very hard for no good reason. Just my 2 cents.
It is the intented behaviour. File system is like a database and thus fits perfectly in this case.
About the loading time, my Mac mini is able to load 50 files per second with a 80GB 7200 rpm 2"5 disk. I think it does the job pretty fast enough imho. For 1K songs collection, it would takes 20s with my setup. I won't call this long.
If anyone has a nice collection of MP3 and a SSD drive, I'll be glad to get some feedback about the loading time with such setup.
Also, loading from a database would ask even more time: for each file stored in database, in a perfect world, the following two things should at least be done:
- Check if the file is still present, if not remove entry from database,
- Check if the metadata has changed (user tagged some songs) and update database content if needed.
With the current 'brute force' approch:
- Recursively walk a directory,
- If file is loadable with Reggae and type is sound, load it,
- ???
- Profit.
If songs are added/deleted/modified/moved etc, Jukebox still loads it right without having to mess with fail prone database stuff.
Also, keep in mind that Jukebox is meant to be a minimalistic player.
