From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-02-22 14:21:48
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> Perhaps a bit off-topic here, I apologize. I want to solicit ideas on how > to manage an mp3 collection using a combination of hard disk space and > SCSI tape drives. I've been thinking about using a 1GB HDD to hold a few > songs from each genre that I want to play from, and to have a scratchpad > of sorts. While the first song is playing, I would begin restoring more > songs from the requested genre into the scratchpad area, and misterhouse > would just continue to play songs as they are dumped into the temporary > directory, deleting them after they have been played or play has been > cancelled. Seems doable. Are the tapes accessable as a drive/mount point? If so, seems you could index them with get_mp3_data. Maybe you would want to use -dbm parm to have 2 different databases, one from tape (that would require a caching subroutine to use) and one for normal hard drive files. |