IMPORTING 1000+ songs

[crazycroat9]

I have an ipod 30g and to upload music using rockbox i dragged the music to a folder entitled MUSIC on my ipod.
but this folder can fit only 1000 songs
what do i do to put more
is it as simple as creating a subfolder within MUSIC
or just another totally separate music folder?

[AlexP]

You can put them wherever you want, so either in a new subfolder or a new folder, or whatever.

Personally I have mine in

Music
--- Artist A
------ Album A
------ Album B
--- Artist B
------ Album C

etc., but whatever floats your boat.

[bascule]

FAT32 has a limit of ~22000 files in a directory, so that's not it. How exactly does this apparent limit manifest itself?

[crazycroat9]

oooh thankss=]
i did it for my friend who is even more of a technical dunce than I am
he made new folder caleld music and put allhis songs in it but he sed it stopped loading after 1000 songs

[crazycroat9]

You can put them wherever you want, so either in a new subfolder or a new folder, or whatever.

Personally I have mine in

Music
--- Artist A
------ Album A
------ Album B
--- Artist B
------ Album C

etc., but whatever floats your boat.

is there a way of automatically doing this
or do you havta do it all manually
doesnt that take long?

[Chronon]

I thought the limit was ~65,000 for FAT32.  I think the default setting in Rockbox for "Max Files in Dir Browser" is 1000.  You aren't referring to that limit, are you?

[bascule]

I thought the limit was ~65,000 for FAT32.

Technically yes, but only exclusively using the 8.3 file naming convention

EDIT: I think I was making that up...

I think the default setting in Rockbox for "Max Files in Dir Browser" is 1000.  You aren't referring to that limit, are you?

I suspect that is the problem. The OP just wrote it as if the problem happened during the drag 'n' drop  
The manual is always your friend in these instances...
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-buildch7.html#x10-1210007.6.8

[Chronon]

I thought the limit was ~65,000 for FAT32.

Technically yes, but only exclusively using the 8.3 file naming convention

That makes sense.  Thanks for the info, bascule!

I suspect that is the problem. The OP just wrote it as if the problem happened during the drag 'n' drop  
The manual is always your friend in these instances...
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-buildch7.html#x10-1210007.6.8

Yeah, I was a bit confused at the phrasing as well.