vrobin;275577 Wrote: > FYI, on a small 1Ghz C7 machine: > > time md5sum 111Mo_file.flac > real 0m2.338s > user 0m1.992s > sys 0m0.336s > If I'm interpreting this correctly this means 4-5 seconds for a single file ? For a 50000 file library this would mean that a full rescan take about 60 hours, would that be acceptable ?
Of course, for FLAC files there is really no reason to calculate a checksum since there already is a pre-calculated available inside the file. vrobin;275577 Wrote: > > With these assumptions, I conclude that a solution would be to create a > generic system tht would be the primary holder (and manager?) of the > metadata. > It should be flexible enough to permit custom tagging/metadata schemes > (according to the needs of the user, like the example of the 'singer' > only, or 'soprano', or 'singer'+'soprano'). > It would be "media file aware" and able to associate a given file with > its metadata. > It could export or be used to freely export the contained metadata > towards SC and file tags. Some additions: - There has to be a tool which is easy to use to manage the metadata. Compare with the different graphical tagging softwares available. - SqueezeCenter has to be able to view and browse the library based on the data. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
