On 2011/01/06 21:55, Dennis Ryan <therealdjr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I want to browse music with their tags, for example, I can either take a
> big initial hit from the server to get the metadata, or many smaller ones.
> With my 10,000 song library the performance is OK enough to use the brute
> force method. BUT I'm always interested in a better way!

When you browse music, always request as much data as you need at a
time.

> From the client side, it's easier to deal with structured data.

What kind of structure would you expect?  Why do you need more
structure than the MPD protocol provides?

> On the server side it is more scalable.

What?  XML based protocols are more scalable than MPD's protocol?  Are
you serious?

Nothing scales as badly as XML!

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