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Defragging the iPod

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Yotto:
I only did it once, and wasn't paying any attention because I hadn't given any of this any consideration whatsoever, but I'm almost positive that when I ran the defrag on my iPod, it took a significantly shorter amount of time tahn it would take to pull all the mp3s off of the drive and then put them back on.  Like 10 minutes or so.  I was planning on doing another one soon (I have about 500 more songs to hand-tag and put in the correct directories, and I'll be done with, hopefully, the last major music restructuring of my life), and will report on it.

mnhnhyouh:
With the iRiver H3xx series, defragging speeds boot times under the iRiver firmware.

http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=12074

I dont deny there may be advantages to having an unfragmented drive. However using the defragment option is a slow one. Just to copy the music across to an empty drive will give you the same result (a defragmented drive) more quickly, and with less chance of damage/wear.

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soap:
If you retag all your music (maybe by adding ReplayGain tags for example) and by doing so increase the filesize of your songs enough to require a new sector to be allocated...then you will have fragmented the heck out of your player, and the one-time investment of defragging will pay you back in reduced drive (and battery!) usage.

But in general, as was previously said, it is hard to fragment something as static as a digital audio player, and even harder to fragment it enough to matter.

travishayes89:
i might defrag it becuase ive been moving stuff around and retagging some, need to defrag it anyway, i use my iPod as dual purpose, music player and storage device.

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