Andy Hawkins;279169 Wrote: > Hi, > > In article <shawkie.362r5n1205182503 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com>, > shawkie<shawkie.362r5n1205182503 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > > This database tool runs on Windows XP and downloads the music > library > > and artwork: > > http://www.geocities.com/shawkie_geo/pocketsqueeze/databasetool.zip > > Why not retrieve this information using the CLI? Seems odd that every > time > you add some music to the server, you have to rebuild a database on > the > client? > > Andy
I have decided that keeping a local copy of the database is an important feature. That's mostly because my server is very slow. In fact my PocketPC has a 624MHz CPU whereas my server is only a 266MHz NAS. It also gives me a lot more flexibility in my queries. Moose and some other programs do the same. I could use CLI rather than MySQL to build the database but in SlimServer 6.5 its not easy to get enough information. If a track has multiple artists and/or genres I can't get that information directly from track. I would have to find all tracks matching each artist and then repeat it for genres and combine the results. Its a bit better in 7.0 but I can't run that on my NAS (yet?). I'd also have to create the namesort, titlesort, etc. fields myself. In the future I will probably build the database tool into PocketSqueeze itself. Then rebuilding the database will be easy and should take just a few seconds. Nothing is final at this stage though. -- shawkie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shawkie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3751 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44558 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
