Re: Sound in Emacs

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On 6 Oct 2011, Stefan Monnier said:

>>> And then there is Stefan's Music Player Daemon (MPD) -
>>> dunno about that either, but it sounds like it employs an actual "database"
>>> (unlike Bookmark+ (and Org, I imagine), which holds the metadata in plain 
>>> text
>>> files).
>> MPD's 'database' is just a (UTF-8-encoded) text file (as is its
>> saved-state file in the same directory).
>
> Yes and no: it's saved as a plain text file, but it's loaded upon
> startup and the indices are kept in some kind of balanced trees.

Yeah, so as with other dbs you can't edit it freely (e.g. not without
shutting mpd down first).

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