Thanks for your explaination.
That would be still a problem.
Lots of area do not allow such a `big` tolerance，especially for radio and
television related area.
Is it hard to have the milliseconds form functionality in MPD core?
Or, can we have it in the future release?
Gui
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Arnold Krille <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> To elaborate on Max' answer and because I like statistics:
>
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:58:46 +0800 zw g <pekingmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now in the current MPD version:
> > >From asking MPD by using `client.playlistinfo()` request by using
> > python-mpd2,
> > what i get is int type represents duration of each song in *seconds*
> > form.
> >
> > I think that is not accurate enough for computing the duration of
> > whole playlist, especially for large playlist.
>
> Yes, seconds is enough accuracy. Especially for large playlists!
> If the playlist is two songs of 1 minute each, that makes 120 seconds
> in total. When both lengths are inaccurate by 1 second (maximum!), that
> means 120 +- 2 seconds, that is an error of less then 2%. Quite good
> already.
> If the playlist is large like 300 songs of 3 minutes each, that makes
> 900 minutes material or 54000 seconds. The error is 1 second per
> song. So the length of a song is 180+-1 second or less then half a
> percent per song. For this large amounts of songs, doing the
> error-calculation by adding the larges values is giving an overly large
> error, the real error will be much smaller, probably less the 0.1%. And
> who needs a playlist-length of 54000 seconds accurate to less 0.1 percent?
>
> Arnold
>
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