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Silver:

--- Quote ---- Changed default skin to use titlestrip grids.
- Changed alerts to add fatal crash logs.
- Added song year to database.
Preparing for a later feature that allows you to filter by year

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Sounds like you've got to put this one off due to backend changes.... Never mind, I'll look forward to v4! Its the one thing stopping me using WinCab right now (too many mp3's!)

Good work!

Chris:

--- Quote from: Silver on February 23, 2005, 08:52:55 pm ---Sounds like you've got to put this one off due to backend changes.... Never mind, I'll look forward to v4! Its the one thing stopping me using WinCab right now (too many mp3's!)

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The word to the wise is always plan for scalability.  When I originally wrote DWJ, it was just for myself and I knew I'd never have more than a few hundred songs in it...  :o

The question is do I hack it now or do I do it right and put in an SQL back-end...

Silver:
Honestly, despite wanting the feature, I'd stay wait and go for Sql.

I've recently had to delve into Mysql for a few things, and I've highly impressed - that thing is *fast*. And quite easy to use due to the high-level language of searching. (ie build your databse, the run a "select * from mp3db where year=1979" - bingo - all ready in about 0.02 seconds.)

I hope you'll find it not too hard to integrate, but then its probably a lot more complicated then I've suggested!

Chris:

--- Quote from: Silver on February 24, 2005, 07:34:38 pm ---Honestly, despite wanting the feature, I'd stay wait and go for Sql.

I've recently had to delve into Mysql for a few things, and I've highly impressed - that thing is *fast*. And quite easy to use due to the high-level language of searching. (ie build your databse, the run a "select * from mp3db where year=1979" - bingo - all ready in about 0.02 seconds.)

I hope you'll find it not too hard to integrate, but then its probably a lot more complicated then I've suggested!

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I'm actually looking at SQLite, which looks much more appropriate for an application such as this, as it doesn't require a server process to be installed.  I don't think MySQL will run on DOS.

Of course, I've been writing SQL queries for 14 hours today at work, and I'm not sure it's something I want to do when I get home for an unpaid hobby....  :o

Silver:
hah - looks like your way ahead in SQL than me!

I realised MySQL would not be good for you, but am not knowledgeable of other variants....

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