Re: Fetch a track tag by id

2005/9/20, Linus Walleij <[email protected]>:
> tis 2005-09-20 klockan 10:25 -0600 skrev Shaun Jackman:
> 
> > Is there an efficient function to fetch a njb_songid_t* for a given
> > trackid? Fetching all the tags using NJB_Get_Track_Tag and searching
> > for a given id is a lengthy process.
> 
> Shortly: no.
> 
> Reason: all Creative apps dump out the entire database and maintain
> a cache internally. For the newer devices the dump is made every time
> at startup.
> 
> In Gnomad I use a hash list with the trackID as explicit hash value
> since this is guaranteed to be unique.

Thanks for the clarification, Linus. I'll do the same.

While I'm here, can anyone recommend a most simple hashmap
(dictionary) implementation for C? Something similar in style to
bsearch/qsort would be ideal.

Cheers,
Shaun


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