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Subject: Re: Sort files after ID3 track number
From: Michael O'Quinn (michael_at_oquinn.info)
Date: 2003-04-27

On 27 Apr 2003, William Pietri wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 02:19, Mike Holden wrote:
> > >
> > > It would seem that the right way around the slowness of finding tags
> > > would be for Rockbox to build up its own cache of metadata, allowing the
> > > interface to be less dependent upon file structure.
> >
> > If you want to do this, then the answer is to build this kind of stuff
> > off-line, on a PC, not on-line in Rockbox. Building these kind of
> > databases is time and resource hungry, so better done on a PC, where you
> > have mains power, a fast disk and a fast processor.
> >
> > They are called "playlists", and Rockbox can play them if you have them!
>
> If all I wanted to do with the interface was playlists, that would be
> true. But I'm interested in building something more dynamic.
>
> Regardless, I agree that building up the database on a PC is a great way
> to go, and that's probably how I'd start. But I'd guess that for full
> adoption, assuming that people will always use a special tool to keep
> their metadata caches up to date isn't a good way to go. Archos's
> it's-just-a-USB-disk approach is great, as you can manage the music with
> pretty much anything. But I think that means that when coding, you have
> to make that lowest common denominator work, even if you also go for
> optimizations when better things are available.
>
> Still, y'all are safe from my interface experiments for a while; it's
> going to be at least a couple of months before I can clear enough time
> to start hacking away on this. But Rockbox is so cool that I'll be very
> excited to contribute when I get the chance.
>

One of the things planned for the future is a plugin loader, sometime
about V 2.3, IIRC. This kind of extra functionality would be just the
thing for that.

With loadable and unloadable plugins, the database creation COULD be done
directly on the Archos, albeit slowly compared to a PC. Since plugins are
going to be rather limiter (I think about 25KB was mentioned) the entire
functionality might be split among several plugins. Maybe, one to create
the database, and another to make playlists from that database, and then
just play the playlists normally.

Just a thought, YMMV, May Shrink Or Fade When Washed, etc., etc.

Michael

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