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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Re[2]: Bookmark FilesRE: Re[2]: Bookmark Files
From: Stuart Tedford <stuart.tedford_at_piresearch.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:08:54 -0000 No, it isn't too late for me. I hacked some playlist generation scripts to create the playlists in a directory of my choice. My mp3 directories are still totally mp3. I guess my point is that I don't only ever want to use RockBox to play my mp3s. As you know it doubles as an external harddrive, so I can connect it to my PC and play the mp3's from there, and soon my new USB host enabled PocketPC when it arrives. Imagine if every application I used to play my mp3s generated its own floater files in my mp3 directory tree, it would be a big mess. I think these floater files are bad practice, for any application, and only really exist becasue of lazy programmers (like me :-). At least with RockBox we have the opportunity to avoid them. I know, I know, "show me the code". But at this early stage, how hard is it to knock up a couple of basic floater file functions: FILE *OpenFloatFile(int accessType, char *pFullBaseFileName, char *pFloatFileExt); and bool CloseFloatFile(FILE *floatFileHandle); Stu. > -----Original Message----- > From: Björn Stenberg [mailto:bjorn_at_haxx.se] > Sent: 17 January 2003 15:34 > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Subject: Re: Re[2]: Bookmark Files > > > Stuart Tedford wrote: > > It is messy and annoying when making backups and browsing etc etc. > > Exclude them from your backup. Select "Music only" display in > your browser. > > > To use a software engineers analogy, I'd rather treat my > mp3 directories > > like source code directories. Only source code goes in there, > > Too late, you already have playlists. > > > any external "floater files" (generated by an editor for > example) go in > > a seperate directory > > The "floater files" are not binary crap that only Rockbox > understands. They are text files the user edits to his liking. > > -- > Björn > Received on 2003-01-17 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |