Database Issues

[dsebgamer]

Whenever I look for a song on my h10, then it usually has more than one copy of the song, like 3, and in some cases, 11. I have connected it to the computer, and checked, but on the computer it only shows as one song. Also, when I change artist names on the computer, the change doesn't seem to carry over to the h10.

[mykel--]

your database has become corrupted.

dont worry, its easy to fix:
on your h10, navigate to rockbox menu -> settings -> general -> database and choose initialize now.

or, via either a computer or rockbox's own file browser, delete all the database_n.tcd files (eg database_0.tcd, database_1.tcd etc), as well as the database_idx.tcd file, from the .rockbox directory. this will force rockbox to recreate your database and is sometimes necessary if the first method doesnt solve your problems.

for your second problem, rockbox at the moment doesnt scan for metadata changes in the media files. the only way to make the database 'see' the changes is to recreate it via one of the methods above. this is why i usually fix all my metadata (sometimes over a period of days) and then recreate my db

[Mopar Guy]

Thanks Mykel, that answered one of my questions but I have another - how can you get the player to play the entire database randomly? Somehow I can't find that.

[druidfire217]

Go to Database->All and then put it on shuffle.