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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: More on my CD ripping/archos problemRe: More on my CD ripping/archos problem
From: Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:21:52 +0200 BTW, Sarai: How many tracks have been on such a cd and how big are these files now ? manuel On 10/8/05, Magnus Holmgren <lear_at_algonet.se> wrote: > Sarai wrote: > > > Now this is interesting. I deleted those ripped CD's off my computer and > > my recorder and started all over again. I ripped three of them using > > Windows Media Player and one with Cdex because Media player wouldn't > > show all the tracks. Then after charging my player I created a folder > > called test and then dumped the music from those four CD's in my test > > folder. I unplugged the player, put in the headphones, went to the test > > folder and every file showed up and every file played! Now this is where > > it gets weird. I put those files in to the folders that I wanted them in > > with all of my music, unplugged the player, put on the headphones and > > none of those files show up in the folders. You can see them from the > > computer but not from the player. I went in to general settings and made > > show all files and put directories and files in alphabetical order but > > that didn't work to fix the problem. Any suggestions? I have plenty of > > disk space and I'm not sure where this setting is now but I had my > > directory limit at 10000. We are no wear near that. I think the most one > > folder has is 400 songs. So we at least know its not the ripping problem > > its recognizing the songs in the folders. > > Good, that eliminated some possible problems at least. But I would > recommend reducing that directory limit a bit, for two reasons: > > 1) I've read some messages that having a large limit causes problems (I > don't know exactly what or why). > > 2) It needs memory. From what I understand, you have an Archos player or > recorder. They typically have 2 MB ram, and with max files set to 10000, > that means about a quarter of the memory is used for displaying folders > (as opposed to buffer files for playback). > > So, try reducing the max files setting to something like 600 to 1000, > and see if that helps. > > Magnus > Received on 2005-10-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |