New to rockbox with a few questions

[nbuuifx]

Installed Rockbox last week using the utility on a Sansa Clip+ 8GB. Installed perfectly and have been using it since.

So much better - just got a few little questions.

1. Everytime I plug it into the laptop I get a message popping up saying the disk needs formatting. I click cancel and it just works. Is there any way to stop this? Just worried in case anyone else plugs it in and presses OK.

2. Is it possible to have 2 versions of the database? I've got a few compilation CDs on the player and they fill the database with hundreds of artists. I've put a database.ignore file in now to ignore the compilation CDs folder. This has made the Database much more manageable - but sometimes I want to search for a song by a certain artist which may be on a compilation CD - so it would be good to have a 2nd database which just has everything even the ignored items - is this possible?

3. I currently have all the mp3s neatly organised in subfolders under the Music folder. Can I delete all the other folders and then just put the subfolders in the root? Just to make it neater when using the files option. I've already deleted the ##MUSIC# and ##PORT# folders after reading on here.


I think that is all for now.

Thanks
Post Merge: August 11, 2012, 07:45:57 PMThink I've answered number 1. Since removing the ##MUSIC# and ##PORT# folders it seems to have stopped saying it needs to format the drive.

[saratoga]

1)  Never heard of that.   (edit:  might want to check the file system for errors just to be safe)

2)  No.

3)  Yes, the folder structure doesn't matter at all.

[Sakura90]

1) That's crappy Windows. I get that [very] occasionally, not only with Rockbox but with any pendrive or USD drive. The same goes if I don't "safely" remove an USB drive. If I do that I'll [almost surely] get the annoying "scan for errors" dialog next time I insert the USB. Useless, ofc, as USB drives have write caching disabled by default. I never looked into some way to disable those dialogs.

2) You should use the tag "album artists". Set that tag to "compilations" for that kind of albums and use "album artists" to normally browse music. That way your compilations artists don't get thrown in the list. Then if you want to have the songs of an artist of the compilations, you just browse the normal "artist" tag. Got the idea?

For the rest of the "normal" albums leave that tag empty, "album artist" is assumed equal to "artist" if empty.

I do that with several series of compilations (instead of only one general "compilations"), it works perfect for me :3

3) You can delete everything (the folders and stupid files of the OF), leave only ".rockbox" and your stuff on the player.