How long is the startup?

[Leoml88]

I hear the startup takes a long time.

If anyone would be so kind as to time their startup with db on and also with db off, and also tell me how many songs they have?

[Mike]

With 28.7 GB of music/6027 songs:

non-db - 15 seconds
db - 65 seconds

[Leoml88]

That doesn't seem too bad. I have around 1000 songs or so, so I'm guessing it should take me around 15 seconds with db and maybe 5 without.

[h0p3l355is4]

umm it should take thar long... for me 12gigs 2100 songs took about 7 secs non-DB and 22 secs DB.

DEFRAGMENT THE DAMN PLAYER! it works.... i've tried it.

[Leoml88]

whats it mean to defragment

[Leoml88]

Also, if my id3 tags are pretty complete, is the db scan really that bad?

[clevetus]

yea, thats what i'd like to know. if i take the time to really fix and organize all my tags, will that boot time decrease w/ DB?

[Leoml88]

Well, a lot of my songs don't have the album. (Btw, is it id3v1 or id3v2 when I right click on the file and look at the properties of the song)

[reddshack]

W/O DB: 28 seconds
With DB: ??? I will never know

9,379 Songs

[jelly]

W/O DB: 28 seconds
With DB: ??? I will never know

9,379 Songs

Whoa!! Many many songs.....so how big is that in gigs? And what bitrates and all that? Just wanna know how u can cram that many songs in :P

Jelly

[gt123]

Originally Posted by jelly

Whoa!! Many many songs.....so how big is that in gigs? And what bitrates and all that? Just wanna know how u can cram that many songs in :P

Jelly

You could easily fit that many songs on the H140, couldn't you?

[reddshack]

Originally Posted by jelly

Whoa!! Many many songs.....so how big is that in gigs? And what bitrates and all that? Just wanna know how u can cram that many songs in :P

Jelly

Well, my song break down is basically as follows (all of my songs are in MP3):

1: ~3,700 songs @ 192kbps CBR (17.8 Gb)
2: ~5,000 songs @ 96kbps CBR (13.7 Gb)
3: ~650+ songs @ 96kbps - 320kbps CBR & VBR (2.87 Gb)

-1: are all of my personal rips from my CD's........ I'm still working on them though. I have quite a few more CD's that I need to rip.

-2: are from the song swap I did with a buddy at work who has a RCA Lyra 40gb. At the time I thought it was a fair swap because I only had abut 2,500 total songs on my player (including downloads). I have since learned that I got screwed out of the deal completely. I can't stand to listen to anything he gave me!!!! 96kbps?!?!?! Are you joking me?!? And he says he CAN'T tell the difference!!

-3: are all of my random downloads that I have condensed down, deleting all of the ridiculous songs to save room for the ones I like.

I currently have 2.47Gb free space....... not much considering how many more CD's of my own I have to rip. VERY soon I will be deleting the 5,000 from the song trade/swap I did, as I have no use for songs that sound like crap. My downsizing is near...... you will see it in my Sig when I finally do it. I will be about 5,000 short from what I am at right now.

Moral of it all: Quanity NEVER makes up for quality. Don't fool yourself into thinking so. (5,000 crap songs is not a good trade for 2,500 quality songs......IMHO)