I still don't understand what you mean by this:
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The first thing I did different was that I had to convert all my TAG title from "##-title"->"title"
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Simple ID3 Tags as I understand them have a track number field, artist field, Song name field, album name field, year field and depending on the verison of the ID3 Tag have other fields as well. I don't understand how how or why you appear to have the track number in the ID3 tags connected to the name, none of mine have this, its just in the track number field.
I once read somewhere that one of the ID3 tags is put at the start of the file and another of the types is put at the end of the file. I would have thought that only using the type of ID3 tag that is positioned at the start of the file would make DB startup a lot quicker as otherwise it would have to find the end of the file before it could read the tag. If all the info was at the start of the file it might deal with each file quicker. However I thought it was the v2 Tags that were written at the end of the file so maybe the opposite is true and its easier for it to search the end of the file. I generally have both v1 and v2.3 tags on all my mp3's so could easily wipe one type, it'd just be interesting to know if there is any rational between either type of tage being read quicker or perhaps it just being easier if all your tags are of the same type.
I also seem to have missed this folders first trick. From what you're saying, it appears that you need to copy all of your directories to an empty player and then after you've got those written to the start of the drive, you copy the information after them filling them but actually all the data they contain is written to the drive after the folder structure. Interesting and I might try it sometime soon but for now the copy of my music on my player is more uptodate and Tagged better than that on my PC so before I try this I'll have to delete the music on my PC to free up HD space, copy all my music from my player to my PC and then I can think about playing with my player setup. Still interesting nonetheless but I'd like to know why a bit better so I can try and optimize my setup before trying it.
Fluidity.