Testing Needed: Switching enginecontroller to use milliseconds everywhere.

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> Dan Meltzer wrote:
>> I forgot to mention, this will require a full collection rescan (and
>> an update of any service collections).  It might make sense to add a
>> database update script to automatically convert the length field, but
>> that can be done closer to merging...)
>>
>> Also, if we're storing it as milliseconds in the database, does the
>> column type need to become BIGINT? or will INTERGER still handle it do
>> you suppose...
>
> INT will handle it. A signed int will give you 2147483647 milliseconds,
> or 2147483.647 seconds, or almost 25 days' worth of music in a single
> track. Should be enough,don't you think?

John Cage's new smash single "26 days and 33 seconds" should just go DIAF.

Ian