I'll express the same dissenting opinion I have on the bug tracker: I think this is a really bad idea, and if it's implemented at all it should be implemented carefully. When you have a large amount of music to add to the database (imagine you just found your long-lost CD album at the bottom of your closet..) you will generate a new database update every 5-10 minutes, if not several in a row every 5-10 minutes. (10 new files = 10 folder modification notifications, 10 songs per album, 1 minute per song to rip and encode, 100 CDs in my cd case right now.. all averages.) that will end up causing the mpd database to be re-written each time there's an update, which will cause the file system to reallocate the space for the database right then and there each time. this will probably lead to a high amount of database fragmentation on a fairly moderately full file system.
Not to mention that updating the MPD database causes stuttering during playback on every system I have. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Scott Horowitz <stonecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Avuton Olrich <avu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Baybal Ni <nikuli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > MPD should use inotify in linux and it's analogues in another >> > operating systems to update it's db automaticaly. >> >> This mailing list is not a bugtracker, but rest assured, we're way >> ahead of you. Feel free to monitor this bug. >> >> http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=2091 > > Just my two cents: I can't agree enough. If there was only a single feature > that MPD implemented for the future, I'd want it to be this. > > Scott > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Musicpd-dev-team mailing list > Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team > > -- (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain (")_(") world domination. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
