True, it does cache much of the data in a couple files. Heck, one is even binary. However, almost all of the data is also stored and sometimes accessed directly from the files themselves. Other data is parsed from an xml file. Then there is the music itself. In a database based implentation access to this data wouldn't be through the relatively high cost route of file system access.
Its a gray line, but I wouldn't put its implementation in the "database" category. iTunes resembles a database because of the tabular data display. But the implementation is far from a database in my opinion.
By most of the data, I am refering to album art. It is by far the most heavy weight metadata. I think it was moved back into song files a version or two ago.
Aw hell, I just realized that I might be remembering that switch backwards. Anyone know where album art currently resides?
Last edited by dfiler : 2007-07-19 at 21:04.
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