Wow, been a pretty slow week. Two things I'm working on for AudioMan right now: threading and file library issues.

The file library issues are easy to fix but will take some refactoring. The code that reads the file meta data has the AudioMan object AudioData throughout it. From a coupling standpoint, this is bad. So even though it will make the libraries less efficient (copying data), I'm making libraries that can be used on any other project not just AudioMan. I may even release them under the LGPL later, assuming I can get everyone's permission.

The threading issue is really sticky. Once you start to get more than one thread going in a program the complexity skyrockets. You have to think of all of the situations a simple operation could be interrupted and how events can conflict or resources can deadlock. There's no question that AudioMan should be multi-threaded, the only question is how and how much.

The major problem causer at the moment is letting people browse the collection will files are being included, on a long Include Directory operation that crawls all of your directories. While the view is switching models, the mutators are sending messages to the models and they get shown by the wrong views. Other tracks are getting lost. I think I will have to suspend the mutators while the view is swapping ... but that's not as easy as it sounds.

At any rate, I'm taking some time to figure out those things before I attack. These are both basic problems that need to be addressed right now.