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Sansa e280, repartition fat32 & ext2, speed up database refresh
cpchan:
--- Quote from: e280ruser on September 28, 2007, 12:32:16 AM ---If you want to speed up the refreshing of the database, convert your files to a format that is unsupported in the original firmware. I recently converted my collection to ogg to reduce disk usage, and have noticed that the database refreshes in 2-3 seconds.
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This is exactly what I do.
--- Quote ---Ext3 is pretty much the same thing but with better data integrity due to journalization. If you really would prefer this method, then maybe you could write a patch to allow for different filesystem support in Rockbox, although this may require quite a bit of knowledge in the C language and a lot of work. Good luck ;)
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ext3 would be sweet.
Charles
AlexP:
--- Quote from: cpchan on September 28, 2007, 11:47:47 PM ---
--- Quote ---Ext3 is pretty much the same thing but with better data integrity  due to journalization.  If you really would prefer this method, then maybe you could write a patch to allow for different filesystem support in Rockbox, although this may require quite a bit of knowledge in the C language and a lot of work.  Good luck ;)
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ext3 would be sweet.
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Note however it is unlikely this would get into Rockbox. Despite the shortcomings of FAT32 it is read/write on all operating systems and the extra overhead and complexity of adding another filesystem is unikely to be worth it. Still, if someone wants to code it up, feel free!
dara.parsavand:
The database update is incredibly annoying for me too. I've gotten in the habit of expecting a big lag the next time I want to use the USB transfer and leave it sitting on my desk for 5 minutes after booting the OF before plugging in (after disconnecting, there is no wait since the Rockbox Firmware loads). I stupidly thought I could put my files outside the Music directory but of course that doesn't help. About 1/2 my files are ogg and 1/2 mp3 and I'm too lazy to rerip the latter half. Does it really work if I convert all my tags to an earlier version (which probably would work for me - heck, I use the File Browser mode mostly anyway - I'd consider stripping out the tags completely). Has anyone wrote a script to convert tags?
I had read about the long lag on Amazon, so I knew before purchasing - went for the 8 gigs anyway. If I were to do it again, I'd have probably gotten 2 gigs and waited for a better player, this one has some other quirks such as the headphone jack pushing a huge charge into the headphones when plugging in (don't wear them on your head if you plug your device in when it is on). The buttons on the outside of the scroll wheel are pretty hard to press too. But the sound is pretty good (not amazing), and so is the screen and I love being able to customize the Rockbox firmware (like turning off the ridiculously bright backlight on the scroll wheel). Since this unit looked like the obvious FLASH choice, I went for it. I am so looking forward to the day Rockbox supports USB transfer (if it doesn't happen in a few years, hopefully there will be another device on the market that is fully supported).
Dara
cc:
--- Quote from: dara.parsavand on September 30, 2007, 07:12:57 PM --- About 1/2 my files are ogg and 1/2 mp3 and I'm too lazy to rerip the latter half.
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One idea: You could buy a 4GB MicroSDHC card and put the mp3's on that - the original firmware doesn't support 4GB cards, but rockbox does.
scharkalvin:
--- Quote ---One idea: You could buy a 4GB MicroSDHC card and put the mp3's on that - the original firmware doesn't support 4GB cards, but rockbox does.
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Well yes but you'd have to have an SDHC card reader/writer to do that since the Rockbox port doesn't support USB yet and the OF doesn't support SDHC.
So there isn't a way to WRITE to the card when it's plugged into the Sansa!
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