Re: my personal wishlist

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:40, Ralf Engels wrote:
>  >>However I think that it has some big shortcommings.
>  >>
>  >>1. extremly slow playlist handling. This will always be slow as long as
>  >>it tries to look for ID3 tags for all of my 3000 files.
>  >>2. no way to script it with Perl
> 
> 
>  >I have some incomplete patches to speed playlist handling.
>  >Unfortunately they don't apply cleanly to current code base.   I >haven't
>  >had much time lately.
> 
> Great. Please send it to me and I will integrate it in the latest release.

They involve replacing the gdbm support.. I've been hoping
to do this in one fell swoop when win32 is back and building.
I noticed that the win32 uses dynamic expansion of the 
browser tree like my patches for unix.  These should really
be integrated to use the same facilities.

If you really want to see what its about,
you can checkout a copy of zinf-lazydb from sourceforge.
I've had success with it but others haven't..

> 
>  >1.  No metadata :  zinf will present only filename
>  >
>  >2. Local metadeta : Users may tag and use metadata stored either in the
>  >music files themselves or in the metadata database.
>  >