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RC2 will not only use the XML
file for artists and albums, but also for playlists. And it's blazing
fast. The only thing that will remain slow - due to the lack of any
possibilities to work around AppleScript here - is access to remote/
shared playlists streamed from other computers running iTunes.
This is too bad, Felix, but thanks for the info. I have found this to be the case for my setup. If I use iTunes' local library, RB is very fast. If I connect to my other Mac's iTunes, RB starts crawling, even after I navigate away from the iTunes browser. So I have to quit RB and start over.
What if I set up my iTunes library differently, such that the two Macs had write access to a network drive, each with their own local XML library file? I've read about how to sync those XML files with Applescript. The reason for doing this instead of iTunes share, is that then both have the permission to write to the library.
Just wondered if this would also allow RB to be faster.
