Paul McNett wrote: > XML is a pretty sucky data storage format, once the size of the XML > grows past some threshold. I'm about to ditch iTunes because I'm tired > of waiting for it to load my iTunes library (one gargantuan xml file) > every time I start it up, and I'm tired of it taking longer than > necessary to save my changes. > > I believe iTunes uses sqlite internally (IOW, it loads the xml into > sqlite for internal use) which seems very wasteful. It should just save > the sqlite database to disk as the library, instead of the xml file. > Then, if someone wants to export their library, save that as xml. > > IOW, XML is a great data transfer and sharing format, but a sucky > storage and efficient random-retrieval format. > > I agree with the gentleman from the great state of California (said with 5 syllables. <g>)!
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