Re: lmc bugginess

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:12, Ed Sweetman wrote:

> > 
> > I like this idea of storing the time after playing in some metadata
> > field and use that when available instead expensive calculations.
> 
> even if you had an option to determine exact time lengths or did it 
> automatically after playing a file, you still wouldn't be able to 
> accurately seek in a file. If there is a metadata tag for duration, it 
> should be written as an option, automatic writing to files is not a good 
> thing, we should make sure the user has to explicitly give zinf 
> permission to write duration data to files being played or perhaps to 
> files being added ... etc.

Seeking will remain a problem, but if we are close, it's good enough.

The time info would be stored in the metadata database instead of the
actual file itself (unless you allow metadata tagging of files).



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