Technical question about Sansa Clip+ micro SD cards and OS displaying capacity

[Drealm]

I have a black 8gb Sansa Clip+ with a 32gb microSD card and everything works 100% well with Rockbox installed, thanks for that.

On the Sandisk website, they say that my player can support up to 32gb microSD card; so the 64gb they sell will not work on my player. They also told me after asking them that the operating system capacity can display a maximum of 8000 songs.

But is it different with Rockbox?

So my question is: With Rockbox installed on my player, can it display more than 8000 songs? Can it support the "SanDisk Ultra microSDXC 64gb" card?

I presently have about 7000 songs. But if I can add a 64gb card, there will be more songs so I have to be sure the displaying capacity of Rockbox is beyond 8000 songs.

So if someone can answer me, I would be very happy.

[saratoga]

The Sandisk firmware allocates enough memory for less then 8000 songs in it's database (I think like 5000-6000 usually fit depending on tags).  It'll happily read 64GB and larger cards though, and so will rockbox.

Rockbox doesn't try to load all the tracks metadata at once, so there is no limit on the number of files it can play.

That said, we don't support xFat, so you'll need to format fat32 (search the forums someone asks about this every couple days).

[Drealm]

The Sandisk firmware allocates enough memory for less then 8000 songs in it's database (I think like 5000-6000 usually fit depending on tags).

That's basically because of this reason that I came here for Rockbox, you are right, about 1/4 of my songs did not show in my 32gb card with the Sandisk firmware.

Rockbox doesn't try to load all the tracks metadata at once, so there is no limit on the number of files it can play.

So you're saying I could have, for example, 25000 songs on a 64 microSDXC in my current player and that it would work?
Post Merge: November 21, 2012, 04:28:48 PM

That said, we don't support xFat, so you'll need to format fat32 (search the forums someone asks about this every couple days).

In my computer, when I choose the format option, there is only one option: FAT32 (speaking for my 32gb card, I don't have a 64gb yet)

How could there be another option? I have windows XP pro SP3.

So, it is ok as I understand it?

[saratoga]

Like I said, search.

[evilnick]

In my computer, when I choose the format option, there is only one option: FAT32 (speaking for my 32gb card, I don't have a 64gb yet)

How could there be another option? I have windows XP pro SP3.

Use a different piece of software to format the 64gb card. Example: Swissknife, linux live CD.

[zezayer]

Use Google:

Windows for some reason or other refuses to format large SD cards as FAT32. There are loads of other programs and guides out there on how to format a 64gb SD as FAT32. - Takes 2 mins with the right program.

Clip family of MP3 players with rockbox or the original firmware all accept current 64gb SDXC as long as they are formatted as FAT32.

[Mach-X]

Just a slight update here, with a 32 gig card windows formats to fat32, and unless I am mistaken its only vista and up that forces you to use xfat for larger cards. XP should still format to fat32. Sandisk is telling you larger cards are unsupported because the clip+ doesnt have xfat support and they need to stay current with what windows does for support reasons. The clip+ will happily work with larger cards but if you are using vista or newer you need to find a third party app to format it to fat32. Im waiting to hear the first successful results with the new 128 gig microsxd cards! We would finally be caught up with ipod classic/zune120!

[saratoga]

Just a slight update here, with a 32 gig card windows formats to fat32, and unless I am mistaken its only vista and up that forces you to use xfat for larger cards.

32GB is still SDHC.  SDXC starts at 64 GB because 32 is the last size Windows will format as fat32.