[Ipodlinux-devel] New iTunes Browser

[Jens T. <jl...@sh...>]

I have developed a new iTunesDB browser for podzilla.

It provides browsing by song, artist and album so far. Adding other
options is real easy however. The data is stored in binary trees to
enable sorting (right now a simple alphabetical / track-number based
algorithm is used). 

The data is extracted from the iTunesDB file using libitunesdb 
( http://shamrock.dyndns.org/~ln/ipod/libitunesdb_0.4.tar.gz -- see the
README for notes on compiling ).

So far the parsing of the db is rather slow. It takes about 30 seconds
for parsing, sorting, etc. of an 2285 song db. I think it is due to the
fact that a lot of malloc()s/free()s are used. If that guess is correct
I should be able to speed things up quite a bit.

The strings are all stored as UTF8 to save space and speed up
processing. I tried printing them correctly with microwindows using
GR_TFUTF8 as an argument to GrText but then no text at all was drawn.
I did not look much into the problem however. Perhaps someone else knows
how to make microwindows render UTF8 text.

Please let me know what you think of the patch.

Best Regards
Jens Taprogge

The patch can be found at:
http://shamrock.dyndns.org/~ln/ipod/podzilla_20040716.diff 
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Jens Taprogge