[svlug] Photo sorting software

[Bill Kendrick]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:38:37AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> > amaroK, for example, seems to deal just fine with my 11GB of ripped CD audio.
> 
> But you aren't importing a couple hundred songs at once, are you :)?

I'm merely telling amaroK: "hey, over on this network filesystem, you will
find about 2000 MP3 files... have fun."  And it just works.  I can even
do other stuff (listen to songs, listen to streams, etc.) while it does
its indexing and other magic behind-the-scenes stuff.

I would IMAGINE that an image program would do the same.
For example, when I throw a directory of 200 images at Gwenview, it
shows me the first image on the left.  It shows thumbnails of the other
images in the directory over on the right.  If I scroll up and down that
list, it tries very hard (and succeeds) to always show me thumbnails of
the files I'm looking at, even if it hasn't created thumbnails of the
images I've whizzed past.

The other day, I noticed a little status box at the bottom right counting
down how many images it had left to make thumbnails of, with a red "X"
cancel button, and everything.

Apps like Akregator, Amarok, Gwenview and Konqueror have totally spoiled me.
It's no wonder I can't stand being in WinXP :)


> Amarok (1.4.2, currently, on Etch) has worked somwwhat OK (besides, I
> like the interface a lot better than rhythmbox) although I've had
> lockups when trying to use a mysql database recently -- currently, I
> use the SqLite, and I'd much rather use mysql). There have been times
> in the recent past where I had seemingly lost my entire collection (of
> course not the songs themselves, only Amarok's notion of where the
> songs were). 

Hrm, interesting.  I've never mucked with database stuff.  I let it use
whatever it uses internally (which sounds like it's sqlite) and it has
worked without a hitch.

The only thing that's annoyed me immensely in the past (and KDE 3.5.4 on
Kubuntu has worked flawlessly so far *knock on wood*) is KDE's sound server
causing amaroK to freeze.


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