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Clip+ : upgrade to 3.13?

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cliveb:
I'm currently running 3.10 on a Sansa Clip+
It works just fine, and I'm generally of the opinion that if it ain't broke, don't fiddle.

There is however one issue that I find a little irritating. In order to add new content, I have to start it up with the original Sansa firmware in order for the memory to be visible on the PC as external disks. And once I've added the new content, the Sansa firmware insists on rescanning all the storage, which takes quite a while. What's more, the device seems to be locked during this scan. I presume that it isn't necessary for the Sansa scan to actually happen for Rockbox to work?

My question is, if I upgrade to 3.13, will I be able to add new content when the Rockbox firmware is running (ie. no need to fire up the original firmware)?

If not, does anyone know of a way to abort the (presumably redundant) Sansa firmware scan?

saratoga:
3.13 does have USB support, although its more stable in the current builds then in 3.13.

toehser:
Also, the principle of "if it ain't broke don't fix it", has several asterisks and caveats in practice-

There is the set of broken things you haven't yet felt the pain of, which are being fixed.
There are things like feature additions that don't really fix something broken but are desirable.

In general, I would say, be confident that you can get back to where you are if newer versions present problems - but, still, upgrade somewhat regularly, at least to released versions.  The most conservative approach is to upgrade to released versions after some stabilization time period.  Since 3.13 was back in March, there has been ample time to see if major bugs had surfaced...  I can understand not wanting to run the daily build, but, 3.10 is ridiculous.  Go for it.

cliveb:
Thanks for the replies. I've installed 3.13 and the USB support seems to work fine.

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