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Originally Posted by Fluidity
Ok, so for some reason, I missed that thread today, it makes sense now. However, for the majority of people that shouldn't matter as I doubt many people have done that..
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Of course this was not the trick... it was just to explain why I was messing with all my TAGs. Sorry if that confused...
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Originally Posted by Fluidity
Basically the "trick" for the majority of people now runs as follows.
1) Remove all ID3v1 Tags converting them all to ID3V2.3.
2) Ensure Player is blanked (I don't know if deleting all files is sufficient or if it might also need to be formatted).
3) Copy directory structure from PC to player.
4) Copy files from PC to newly created folders (Avoiding fragmentation)
5) Use TDT to create the DB.
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Well, I don't think we can be that conclusive yet... we need more experience from other people who have tried homogenizing or removing special types of TAGs. We don't know precisely yet what cases the DB startup delay. But proposals like this is the way to go - we just need to refine it along the way.
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Does it offer any significant advantages over the defrag methods used by people in the past?
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Defrag is no good... it takes 3-4 hours and the results are not as good because it is hard to control the layout of the disk - many defrag programs can not do alphabetical defragmentation neither. I copied my 24GB in 1 hour 3 min. yesterday, spent 1 min on the xcopy folder structure copy and copied my music files back again in about an hour too.