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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: dfbills on May 16, '03 02:11:22PM

They don't say what the new limit is... 40,000? ;)



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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: ber on May 16, '03 03:24:32PM

heh. I know it's more than 45,000. Maybe 48,000?



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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: aranor on May 16, '03 04:40:35PM

Well, either they're using an unsigned long, which would be 65535 songs, or they're using something even larger, like a double, which can have up to 15 digits of precision and an exponent of, IIRC, about 4 million (which is useless if you want an exact count, so the 15 digits of precision would indicate a potential maximum of about 999999999999999 songs)

Of course, this is all conjecture. Anybody know what they're actually using?



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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: pualo2 on May 17, '03 11:06:01PM

Sorry but 65535 would be an unsigned short, not an unsigned long. And a double would be totally inappropriate, since it is floating point. Most likely the new limit is either the aforementioned 65k, or two/four billion, the capacity of an actual signed/unsigned long.



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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: ber on May 21, '03 04:39:20PM

For the record the old limit was 32,000 not 32k. Go figure.



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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: Brak on May 25, '03 12:56:17AM

For the record it was 32,767. Not an even 32,000.



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iTunes4 lifts 32,000 song library limit
Authored by: magill on May 25, '03 03:43:50AM

32767 is 2**15-1 - classic limit for 16 bit things.

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