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clip zip sd playback question
Serenity:
--- Quote from: luisdent on July 13, 2013, 09:52:06 PM ---Is there any downfall to using two 64gb cards?
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Formatting them to FAT32 is a little tricky sometimes (and you will lose the SDXC speed, which isn't a big issue). I've had two cards work and one fail on me. You won't hit a file number limit or anything--Rockbox plays nicely with them. I always use the file browser, so I can't speak for the database, but I'm assuming if you switch cards you will have to refresh the database.
saratoga:
Its not so much that you lose any speed, its just that in theory some SDXC devices can operate at higher speeds than SDHC devices, although in practice I don't think this is often the case. Most seem to operate much slower than the standard is in theory capable of.
luisdent:
O.k. Thanks. So it sounds like essentially no file limit issues and the speed is irrelevant to me. I don't mind waiting a few seconds for a song to load or something. I do like gapless though. I didn't even check if the clip zip rockbox could do that?
I just went out and bought a 64gb micro card for now (until they make a 128gb). I hope it works. :-P I got a sandisk ultra microSDXC UHS-1 card. It's all they had at best buy, and I thought I read SDCX works. If not I'll return it and get a different one online, but I wanted it for my vacation in a few days.
I read you needed to make it fat (no problem), but it came as extFat. I know that is a different partition/format type, so I assume I need to make it actual "fat" or "fat32"? I'll give it a whirl... Wish me luuuuck. (i looooove rockbox by the way)
luisdent:
--- Quote from: luisdent on July 16, 2013, 08:27:59 PM ---I read you needed to make it fat (no problem), but it came as extFat. I know that is a different partition/format type, so I assume I need to make it actual "fat" or "fat32"? I'll give it a whirl... Wish me luuuuck. (i looooove rockbox by the way)
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Er, never mind. I just found this. Please disregard that part of the question. ;)
--- Quote ---Re: Technical question about Sansa Clip+ micro SD cards and OS displaying capacity
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2012, 02:58:05 PM »
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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).
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What makes you say that? ;) hahaha
luisdent:
I'd like to report that I've been happily using a 64gb card formatted to fat32 full of music with no issues. woohoo! Bring on the 128gb cards!
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