Sunday, 12th February 2006

Tidying loose ends

I still spent most of today programming, despite it being a Sunday and thinking I might take it easy today when I first got up at 6am this morning.

However, it's been relatively productive as I've tidied up loads of little buglets and miscellaneous bits. I updated WordCalc to cater for preset 'Icon Flag' settings, which saves keep having to look up flag bits in the PRM. Version 1.05 all seems to be working quite nicely so I think I can leave it alone for a little while.

I also updated my very old !Snoop application - no real bug fixes, but a few minor cosmetic changes and tweaks for internal efficiency.

However, I realised that ROTunes has a bit of a major problem which I'll have to devote some thought to, to prevent a major headache. Once you've started playing tracks and it's compiled it's internal 'tunedata' file which contains things like genre flags, user rating, number of times and date of last playing, it stores it as a flat-form database which gets loaded next time you load ROTunes. It's fairly efficient but of course, if you add some more MP3s to your collection and then rescan the library, everything gets out of sync, because tracks get inserted in the library, but not in the tunedata file. I need to think of an efficient way of inserting data into the tunedata file, but of course that has no concept of which track corresponds to which data block - other than the bit position in the file - subject to change!

Whilst I ponder on the best way of solving this problem, I've temporarily disabled the 'Rescan library' function in v0.10 - unless of course I can solve the problem before I release v0.10, which was going to be today - but I might ponder for a bit longer.....

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