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====== urmp: The Ur Music Player ====== | ====== urmp: The Ur Music Player ====== | ||
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+ | The goals of urmp are to provide an MP3 music player that can do the following: | ||
+ | * incrementally search a 60k song playlist in under 50ms per keystroke; | ||
+ | * process mp3 files, extracting ID3 and MP3 data, at a rate of thousands of songs per minute; | ||
+ | * maintain a database in the face of failed or moved NFS mounts; | ||
+ | * attain performance goals without reliance on an external database server. | ||
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+ | Other MP3 players, such as amarok, do not have these performance characteristics; and my frustration with using them led to the creation of urmp. Because performance is a key goal, other goals, such as a beautiful user interface, are secondary -- eye-candy and cool functionality is much easier to add after performance (this is not premature optimization, since some of the key performance problems depend on how GUI objects are used). | ||