Pythm reads all tag data anyway. It is slow, but not overly so. That is the trade-off between having a player that uses pre-built playlists and one that builds them on the fly. Personally I go for the latter.
As I mentioned before, I am planning to add some sort of session management. It might be too IO intensive to cache all the tag data (as opposed to simply remembering file name), but it is a possibility. As for song ordering, I believe that some combination of song file name and id3 data will be ideal. I am sure I can come up with something reasonable. Even if there is no general solution, sorting will be cheap compared with reading tags so we can have a sort function in the program that can cycle through some different sorts. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Marcel <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:24:18 schrieb David Garabana Barro: >> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:06:43 The Digital Pioneer wrote: >> > > I would not want to have to rename hundreds of files to get some media >> > > player >> > > sort them correctly just because it doesn't read id3 data... (Although >> > > my filenames actually do have the tracknums included) >> > >> > As Stefan said, this isn't a problem of the player not reading ID3 data, >> > it's a problem of inconsistency. Different people have different wants >> > and the player can't magically know what you want. Unfortunately, the >> > Freerunner has no brainwave scanning peripherals. Perhaps they'll include >> > that in GTA03. :) >> >> I think it's a problem of horsepower. If you can, as modern players do, >> read all id3 info of all tracks, and process it on a relational database, >> you can perfectly sort all your songs by author/album/year/genre/what you >> want ;) >> >> But, if doing so is a slow process on my 2.4 GHz desktop, I cannot imagine >> how slow would be on the freerunner. >> >> What about an option for selecting between name order/ track# order? >> This would satisfy almost all people, I think. > > That's what I thought of, too. Having another option in the config file won't > hurt the gui :) > > -- > Marcel > - Show quoted text - > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- Dylan Maxwell Reilly _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
