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Brad
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2007-07-19, 14:30

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Originally Posted by dfiler View Post
Except that it isn't a database, at least not most of the data. Instead, embedded info is parsed from thousands of binary files and put into tabular form on the screen.
Nope!

iTunes does use a database of sorts for most of its data. If it had to access all of the files directly each time it loaded, it would be excruciatingly slow for thousands of files. When you add a file to iTunes, it imports the metadata into its own database. That's what those "iTunes Library" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" files represent.

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