[patch] Load media through KDE's KIOSlaves

[Alex Merry]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 01:31:45 you wrote:
> Valerio Pilo wrote:
> > In data sabato 05 settembre 2009 00:55:33, Alex Merry ha scritto:
> >> From a quick look at taglib, the only way you can get it to read the
> >> tags is to copy the file to the local system.
> >
> > This is hardly a good news, as it may be an incredibly slow process,
> > wasting cpu, disk space and bandwidth in the meantime.
> 
> It also isn't true, at least not always. TagLib has multiple read modes
> that read more or less of a file to trade off speed and accuracy. For
> most files it would only need to read a very small amount of the file (a
> few K, if that)...which is why people use it with SMB and NFS shares all
> the time without an issue.

Which is exactly why copying over the file to the local filesystem would be 
wasteful (as opposed to TagLib using KIO directly, via an abstraction layer).

Alex


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