Re: [emms-help] Re: To list or not to list

[Yoni Rabkin Katzenell]

Angelina Carlton <address@hidden> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Wow, I had no idea that playlist ever got that large. Sounds like a
>> usage model in which the playlist is the central repository. I tend to
>> keep everything on the disk and only load into Emms what I want to hear
>> at the time.
>>
>> Still, I see no harm in getting an O(1) PBI into Emms!
>
> I load 90GB into EMMS every time I start X 
> (EMMS playlist)--L19802--C0--BOT
>
> It takes up all my CPU for 10 secs or so to load the files and then
> again full cpu for a 15 secs or so to display the PBI 
>
> I don't have a problem with that as I don't then log out of X for a few
> days so its not inconvenient in any way.
>
> If you do change to a buffer, will that affect users like me who like
> all the music loaded all the time? 
>

Not at all. As far as I understand it, the entire discussion is about
making using very large playlists easier. Ideally every action the user
performs on the playlist should take a given, constant and hopefully
short amount of time regardless of the size of her playlist.

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