Local Freedb Errors

[ChristinaS]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

is that just a rule that Microsoft set in? only 65,000 files?

It's what can be addressed with 16 bits: 2**16 = 65536

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

WHOA! I un-der-stand (lol, splitting the syllables) what you're saying! We learned about bits the second week in computer programming!!

[ChristinaS]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

WHOA! I un-der-stand (lol, splitting the syllables) what you're saying! We learned about bits the second week in computer programming!!

Hmmm.... Should we celebrate this sudden awakening? :D :komisch9:

[LtData]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Ahh, apparently neil is now the forum's red-headed stepchild. :D
That is.. minus being red-headed and being a stepchild. And the constant abuse. Ahh, forget it. We'll just label him the "forum n00b" and be done with it.

[9thlife]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

The problem is (and this is why there are 2 databases), for older windows (and possibly any over the network), you cannot have more than 65,000 files per folder and the freedb data did. The windows db combines records to keep the file count down.

Many thanks for that Spoon. I'd worked my way thru' the Freedb site & read the same thing.
That was why I built this computer & started messing with *NIX operating systems & installed the full database on top over Fedora.
But I still don't see why being on a LAN talking to a Linux system is any different to connecting to Freedb over the internet? Surely my machine is behaving as my own local server?