ratrap
Race Dog
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2007
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- 2,553
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- 3
- Location
- Central Karoo
- Bike
- Honda XRV 750 Africa Twin
I encountered this irritating problem after loading lots of mp3's onto a 2 Gig SD card.
Someone suggested storing the mp3's in subdirectories by artist which would speed the process up.
Because I had a collection of one hit wonders I didnt think replacing a mess of mp3's with a mess of sub directories would help but decided to give it a bash.
I downloaded a free utility called Media Monkey which arranges,sorts and generally manages media on your PC.
I moved all the mp3's from the SD card to a temp directory and let Media Monkey sort and create the artist directories and rewrite the songs to the SD card. What I did discover was that there appears to be a limit to the number of directories you can create on the card and to get around this I combined directories that contained only a few songs. It takes a while for Media Monkey to sort and write but requires little input from you.
Once done the Zumo boots in seconds again rather than minutes
Someone suggested storing the mp3's in subdirectories by artist which would speed the process up.
Because I had a collection of one hit wonders I didnt think replacing a mess of mp3's with a mess of sub directories would help but decided to give it a bash.
I downloaded a free utility called Media Monkey which arranges,sorts and generally manages media on your PC.
I moved all the mp3's from the SD card to a temp directory and let Media Monkey sort and create the artist directories and rewrite the songs to the SD card. What I did discover was that there appears to be a limit to the number of directories you can create on the card and to get around this I combined directories that contained only a few songs. It takes a while for Media Monkey to sort and write but requires little input from you.
Once done the Zumo boots in seconds again rather than minutes
