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Customizable paths for last.fm scrobbling, tagcache DB and runtime information

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Llorean:
The feature exists on the D2 because the D2's internal memory is read-only for Rockbox, so booting off the SD card is necessary to even be able to save settings at all. Because this isn't necessary on other players, it wasn't added to their bootloaders I imagine (which are kept as simple as possible for many reasons).

These devices have plenty of write cycles, and there's usually wear levelling at the hardware level. There are people using the Ondio 128 (a flash player) for 7 or more years now who haven't experienced flash failure. Meanwhile dozens or hundreds of people have experienced other hardware failures in their newer flash players (broken headphone jacks, etc).

Speaking the odds, you're more likely to have your player break for some other reason, or decide you want a fancier newer player, than see the limited write cycles of flash seriously impede your use of the player during its normal lifetime.

runiq:

--- Quote from: Llorean on December 27, 2009, 01:17:46 PM ---[…]

Speaking the odds, you're more likely to have your player break for some other reason, or decide you want a fancier newer player, than see the limited write cycles of flash seriously impede your use of the player during its normal lifetime.

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Thanks for clearing that up, you're probably right.

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