Large MP3 collections

I've been having problems with mod_mp3 since my MP3 collection got to
silly sizes, and now when it is included in the httpd.conf, it causes a
segfault on startup, which is not much use. I've just moved over to using
MySQL as the dispatcher, and that helps a little - It crashed on statup,
but it had loaded the first thousand tracks into the db, so I just removed
the MP3 directive, and let it use the db. However, I would like the rest
of my music to go into the db, and I was wondering how I can do that. Is
there a commandline app that will generate the listings in a
MySQL-compatible format? I can do the rest of my collection in
sub-thousand batches if I can get that... Even if not, is there a special
way of generating the signature field, in which case I can knock up a
script that will iterate over everything?
Also, any ideas on why the suspiciously magic number of 1000 records in
the db?
Cheers,

Nick