Preserve song statistics when moving files or altering metadata. Conditions required to apply: song length must not change AND either filenames (with path) must match or two of the following tags matches: artist, album, title. IMPORTANT: Currently dircache enabled and DB loaded to RAM is required for reliable operation of this feature.
This sounds like a useful feature for me, as I tend to tweak metadata and also operate more than one target with slightly different directory structures that I would like to move database information between.
So what do I do on my Sansa e280, where I don't have the directory cache option?
I'm sure I read somewhere on the site, although I can't find it now, that the sansa does not have dircache because it's a flash memory player.
I believe the lack of it means that both database refresh on startup and browsing through the database are slow and/or clunky.
Is there a technical reason why dircache can't be implemented and, if not, is this change going to cause buggy database imports?