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After a while of running this music DB, and noticing lag spikes and slowdowns due to poor, old coding, I made a decision. It’s rewrite time.

Now I know I’ve been saying that forever, but this time Axcid changes itself from a database to a search engine. I’ve engineered a new storage format / searchable database that can store music data, literally 50 times as fast as before. Queries that once took 50 seconds now take 20 milliseconds.

The new system will be much more scalable. Work starting with multiple servers, splitting the ‘powerhouse’ load (streaming, content checking, ‘heavy lifting’), from the database load (searching, indexing, database handling).

The XML api’s will also be re engineered. They will use a better / more standard format.

There will also be many new features, including album indexing, better art retrieval, users / sessions & playlists. The software version will be rebuilt to a more solid, complete application.

We’re moving out of the prototype days, and into the real software days. The beginning was fun, but it’s time to buckle down and launch a real music service.