x5 tag cache nightmare

[Yotto]

I wiped my drive completely, reinstalled the latest build of Rockbox (It would be Friday night's build) and copied the the music back several letters at a time (I have my artists within folders of the letter their name starts with, lest I have too many directories to display in my root music folder).

0 problems.  I now have a working tagcache installation.

[the_house]

Update:  mp3's with long filenames do seem to be the culprits.  It's still true that the offending files do not cause a failure 100% of the time, but shortening the filenames seems to make the problem go away (so far.  I still haven't found all the offending files in my entire collection).  Also, it's still true that I successfully cached all of these mp3s at some time in the past on my Archos, so rockbox does seem to be a bit more temperamental either now compared to then, or on the X5 compared to the jukebox recorder.

[wonderfibre]

what's the easiest way then to find files on my computer which are longer than 256 (or whatever) characters?

[Sherv]

Hmm, I'm still having issues with Tagcache crapping out on my AJBR V2 and I have files with ultra long names (gotta love the Red Sparowes for that). What's the limit for tagcache, I'd love to mess around and see if that fixes it...

[Yotto]

Is it 256 with full path, or 256 just for the filename?

If filename, in dos:

dir /s | sort /+275
or
dir /s | sort /+275|more

will show you the files.  They'll be at the very top (hence the |more to stop it at the beginning) or very bottom (so you want to see the end, no |more).  It won't give the path, but you can then search out the specific files with another dir /s for their exact names.

(I'm guessing on the number, it's 256 plus the offset, which IIRC is 20, so I subtracted one to be on the safe side)

If it's full path,

attrib /s |sort /+256
or
attrib /s |sort /+256|more

(same as above, only this time no offset and you'll know the full path)

[wonderfibre]

Hmm, I'm still having issues with Tagcache crapping out on my AJBR V2 and I have files with ultra long names (gotta love the Red Sparowes for that).

damned Red Sparowes were the ones screwing up my tagcache too! everything seems to be working ok now.......