Hi Alex,
On 06.08.07, Alexander Wirt wrote:
Taking the chance of the Swiss national holiday, I finally managed to build a new major release of PyTone. As usual, it can be found under
http://www.luga.de/pytone/download/PyTone-3.0.0.tar.gz
And in a few hours in debian unstable too. I uploaded the package a few minutes ago. Lets say that I'm very impressed about the sqlite DB. Indexing took a few hours (we talk about 280Gb via 100mbit NFS with round about 30.000 songs), but after that (and one 17Mb DB later) it worked like a charm.
Just out of curiosity: which metadata reader did you use? This information is shown in the message log. For the Debian package, it would be nice to at least recommend the python-mutagen package.
In general, I'm also very happy with the new database code. It's really much faster, especially for large databases, where the old code was nearly unusable. And besides, it really offers much more functionality than before. In particular, the song tagging is really cool. With a simple plugin registering a self-written metadata postprocessor, you can easily add tag to your songs (like all songs played at least once/twice, non-classical music from 1967 to 1979, etc.) and filter according to them.
Cheers,
Jörg
PS: There's a pretty stupid bug in the tag handling. The fix is a two-liner and contained in the latest SVN version as the only change wrt to the 3.0.0 version. Maybe you want to grab this fix.