Re: [mp3player-help] Some ideas to make mp3player faster...

[J-P Theberge]

Lucas <address@hidden> writes:

> Un beau jour, J-P Theberge <address@hidden> nous a dit:
> 
> > Every time we start mp3player, it scan all directories in the 
> > mp3player-path.
> >
> > Is it a good idea to save that scaning in a file and add a
> > mp3player-re-scan directory that you could run after you add some
> > files to recreate that file.
> >
> > So unless you add new file, mp3player already know the list fo files
> > you have.
> >
> > Another idea is to save the info about file in a little .id3 file.
> >
> > Instead of scanning the whole file to get the id3 tag, it just check
> > the content of that .id3 file.
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> I'm ok for saving the path. For the id3 i don't know, because i can't
> tell if it's a time consuming process. And if i change the tag, will i
> have to remove the old tagfile ? Maybe a file time comparison between
> tag file and mp3 ? Not very easy to answer here :)
> 

I think the only thing we can do is implement it, then see. 

-jp