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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Choice of Desktop Software for use with Rockbox?Re: Choice of Desktop Software for use with Rockbox?
From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:47:22 +0100 On Sunday 12 April 2009 15:32, Adam Golding wrote: > ...rockbox will not write tags from the db to the files (because it would be > hard on the flash, I think I was told--although as an owner of a hard drive > player (ipod 5.5G) I can almost wish this were possible) Hm, if that's true (ie: that the facility wouldn't be too hard to implement, but is not done because of the effect of re-writes on flash memory), could it be coded on a per-platform basis, so that known flash-based players don't do it, but known hard-drive-based players do? Possibly have it as a user-settable option (with appropriate caveats regarding wearing out the flash), with the default value set as above according to the device Rockbox is installed on? Antony. -- I want to build a machine that will be proud of me. - Danny Hillis, creator of The Connection Machine Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.htmlReceived on 2009-04-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |