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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Searching without a plugin, was Search PluginRe: Searching without a plugin, was Search Plugin
From: Michael O'Quinn <michael_at_oquinn.info>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:41:15 -0800 (PST) I think this is a good start. Could you make it available as a download somwhere? I can donate some webspace if you want to email it to me. Thanks, Michael On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Elliott, Tim wrote: > Well, I guess I would define "every possible search" as the ability to find > any word in any song. I guess numbers would be a good idea to include as > well. What I am proposing is just to run some code on the PC to gather every > word in every song and then dump that to something that the Archos can use. > Or that we (as humans) could easily use. In other words, to preprocess and > give up drive space to gain speed and ease of use later. > > On my unit, I am storing all the words of all song titles as playlists. One > playlist for every word in every song, and then storing those playlists in > separate folders on the drive under a master "!SEARCH" folder. I wrote a > small VB app to do this for me. I just create a playlist of the songs I want > the program to create "word based" playlists for, and then tell the VB app > to use that playlist and then it spits out a TON of directories and a TON of > playlists, which then I copy over to my Archos. This way if I get a several > new songs, I just create a new playlist for just those songs and feed that > to my VB app so that it can merge the new songs into the existing word based > playlists that I might already have. > > Lets say I want to search for a song called "Go home Fool.mp3" > Using Fool as the word I am searching for, > On my Archos, I just browse to my folder where I keep all the "search" > playlists, and then go to the > "F" folder, then I go to the "O" folder, then I scroll down untill I see the > Fool.m3u playlist I can then just play it. Currently I am only using the > first two letters of the word to search for. > > While the playlist might contain other songs that have the word "fool" in > them, I can always choose next song untill I get to the one I want. > I have considered rewriting my code to do a little better job of making the > playlists contain only one song each. The example I used would then be > listed as "Fool, go home.m3u". There would also be playlists for the other > words too. "Go home fool.m3u", and "Home, go fool.m3u". > > I currently have about 3,623 songs and am using about 15GB on my Recorder20. > After using this method on all my music on the drive, I end up with an > additional 12MB of disk spaced used just for the search files and folders. > The Search folder also contains 3,088 playlists and it is using 293 folders. > > To me giving up a measly 12MB is nothing for the ability to easily and > quickly search even while other songs are playing. The one negative to all > this is that my current VB app is still a little picky about song titles. If > I have non text in the song title, the program will create some non text > playlists. > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rune Wiinberg [mailto:colourless_at_stud.ku.dk] > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:43 PM > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Subject: Fw: Search Plugin > > > > Wouldn't a search capability work much better if you did every possible > > search on your PC, and you carried the results around with you on the > > Archos? > > Just out of curiousity: How do you define: "every possible search " ? > > I personally find it usefull to be able to do simple searches on the run - > if I eg. wants to listen to a certain song and I can't recall in which > directory it's stored. > > However with more complex searches (including ID3 tracks) I (like you) tend > to use my PC. - But I rarely perform these. > > / Rune > Received on 2003-12-20 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |