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How do I determine if I have the latest stable release? The version screen on my player says:r18064-080715Thanks for your reply.
.... My guess is that part of the problem might have to do with my enormous MUSIC folder on the internal memory: the MUSIC folder has no subdirectories, just 500+ files (I looked at the list limits, just to be sure).
Quote from: Strife89 on July 16, 2008, 08:56:32 PM.... My guess is that part of the problem might have to do with my enormous MUSIC folder on the internal memory: the MUSIC folder has no subdirectories, just 500+ files (I looked at the list limits, just to be sure).The FAT32 file system that Rockbox uses gets very inefficient with large numbers of files in directories. You would be best to organise your music into a directory structure with no more than 100 files per subdirectory.
The FAT32 file system that Rockbox uses gets very inefficient with large numbers of files in directories.
Quote from: TAC109 on July 17, 2008, 10:16:47 PMThe FAT32 file system that Rockbox uses gets very inefficient with large numbers of files in directories.If you know how FAT works you know that this is simply not true. FAT works as simply linked list, and this doesn't make having lots of entries unefficient, especially not lots of entries in a single folder.
If the directory is fragmented this will require multiple random disk accesses. It is simply not efficient.
The poster I was replying to has all his files in an "enormous folder", rather than subfolders in a folder.
While I have intentions of changing that, it's going to be a ridiculous task to create the folders, unless I can find a tool to help me. ALL of my .MP3 files are named "<artist name> - <song title>". My intentions are to create folders called <artist name>.If I beat someone to finding such a tool , I'll put it on the UsefulTools Wiki page (and drop a note here).
I'm sorry, I have to disagree with you. "Simple linked lists" are not efficient with "enormous folders". To find a file, on average half the list has to be searched serially. If the directory is fragmented this will require multiple random disk accesses. It is simply not efficient.
soap: The poster I was replying to has all his files in an "enormous folder", rather than subfolders in a folder.
Quote from: Strife89 on July 19, 2008, 12:25:15 PMIf I beat someone to finding such a tool , I'll put it on the UsefulTools Wiki page (and drop a note here).There are already a few programs to do that on the UsefulTools page (under MP3 Tagging & Organization) - EasyTag and Musicbrainz spring to mind.
If I beat someone to finding such a tool , I'll put it on the UsefulTools Wiki page (and drop a note here).
That reminds me of something I've been pondering. Short of transferring the files one by one, is it possible to force any OS (Windows or Linux) to copy files to their destination in alphabetical order, rather than in the order stored on the source disk?
for i in `ls`; do cp $i DESTINATION; done;
for %i in (*) do copy %i DESTINATION
Thanks guys, I'll look at them. I thought that they were strictly tagging programs, so I never bothered with 'em (I already have a great tagger on my Linux machine in my opinion - Ex Falso).
If you're using Ex Falso already, why not use that to do the renaming? It supports doing it too.
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