utgg wrote: > Agree it is almost certainly a player memory size limitation - the > database is probably held in ram. Plus the use of 16-bit track > references. > > It's instructive to have a feel for how much memory you actually need. I > would have thought 100 bytes average for per-track tag information would > be plenty of allowance. That is only 6MB for 64K tracks, a pathetically > small amount these days. In other words, if the player contained > something like a raspberry pi with 512M of memory, it should easily be > able to hold all the tag information for a million tracks in a well > organised in-memory database. A decent sized artwork cache is another > matter though.
100 bytes is nothing though and if the tags are unicode then you just halved that. 50 characters wouldn't cover the song title + artist for many of the bands I listen to. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ probedb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7825 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103488 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
