2006-12-06: Bob Copeland dixit:
> I've personally not had that happen and did riocp -b a bunch of
> times, but I guess I wasn't "lucky."  

I used -b many times long time ago, when debuging the smaldb 
code.  Once it was considered free of bugs, I also run riocp -b 
many times, without troubles.  One should take into account, 
however, that I do keep my *1 files in "good condition".  

I mean, you can write whatever you like in these files; both
legal and ilegal properties and/or property values.  Thanks to
the USB interface, you may even edit these files manually at
will!  RK Rescan Music seems to do a very good job in parsing the 
*1 files and getting rid or ignoring all the strange staff found 
in these files.  But I think the corresponding code in libkarma 
is not as robust and mostly assumes that *1 files contents is 
"correct".  So it may happens that it is not a matter of luck: 
"riocp -b" might very well produce a corrupted smalldb from 
corrupted *1 files!

My 2 cents (of Euro ;)

Best,
EV.


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