Re: [slug-chat] Coding, strings, crack, MUSIC!

[Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Problem: Playlist managers for music players suck. What I'd like to create
> is an efficient substring searcher for both filenames and attached metadata
> (such as ID3 tags), so a list of 8000 tracks can be cut down to two or three
> in a very short amount of time.

Would something like the locate mechansim be a viable solution?
i.e. scan the directories, read filenames and metadata and whckc
the thing into a MySQL table. Searching that would take microseconds :)

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