Re: [Muine] CoverDatabase proposal

[justin+gnome dicatek com]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jorn Baayen wrote:

> Citeren Tamara <foxxygirltamara gmail com>:
>
> > Based on some user feedback (sorry, just in #muine so no archived
> > copy), I was thinking about removing CoverDatabase and replacing it
> > with JPEGs stored in ~/.gnome2/muine/covers/
>
> That's going to introduce a horrible lot of disc seeking. Those files
> will be scattered all over the disc if files are added to the db
> at different times. Bad, bad, bad.
>
> > The filenames would simply be the Album Key (which is folder name:album
> > title).
> >
> > This proposal would save space by using JPEGs rather than serialized
> > Pixbufs and would make it extremely easy for someone to write a script
> > to link or copy these covers to /path/to/album/folder.jpg or something
> > similar.
>
> I don't see the disc space as a big issue.. I mean, with several hundreds of
> cover images the file isn't bigger than a few MB.

If the space required is so small, how about storing the covers as jpeg
files and just reading them all on startup? No disk seeking required, and
given Muine's footprint of 30-40MB already, a few more MB won't hurt.


Justin