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Sansa E270 Internal Memory not read in WMP

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bluebrother:

--- Quote from: rogerdm on April 01, 2012, 04:33:43 PM ---Do I sound funny?  I am trying to not have to start over with a few thousand files.

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Well, actually yes.


--- Quote from: rogerdm on April 01, 2012, 04:26:07 PM ---I didn't think about it but I did add the music in MTP format.
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MTP is not a format you store your music in. It's a protocol used to communicate with the player. Using the MTP protocol the folder structure presented to you by WMP is not necessarily the same as present on the player. When using MSC mode you see the file structure as it is on the player.


--- Quote ---I know that Rockbox is a music player, but it also has to have a system of storing (or retrieving stored) files.  It is called a filing system.  (I am a Database Engineer, I understand file systems)
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This is where it gets funny (or to be more precise, where I'm starting to wonder if you're joking). A filesystem is a filesystem, not some "filing system". And a file system is a file system. Rockbox needs to use a file system the PC does understand, which is FAT32. However, this doesn't make any difference -- to the PC it's just a removable drive. And that means that Rockbox simply uses the file system. It doesn't have some "filing system". This is nonsense.


--- Quote ---Are your databases Access based?
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And this is the part you surely must be joking.

rogerdm:
Thank you, that was all the help I needed.  I am sorry that we seemed to be speaking different languages.  I know what I need to do now.  I design and build databases, I do not write code.  I appreciate your patience.  And sorry, I did not mean Format, I meant Mode.  What are you 15 or something?

saratoga:

--- Quote from: rogerdm on April 01, 2012, 04:41:56 PM --- And sorry, I did not mean Format, I meant Mode.  What are you 15 or something?

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I think the key point there is not that you used the wrong word, but that you should understand that MSC does not use a database but rather just exposes the file system.  In contrast MTP does not expose the file system, you just give it files and the player decides what to do with them and where to put them.  Rockbox does not use MTP, and so it does not store files in a database like you keep suggesting.  Instead, you store them somewhere in the file system, and then rockbox merely plays them (without moving, copying or otherwise altering anything about their state).

Is that clear? 

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