Will the Clip+ support the 64GB Micro SD cards?

Congratulations, and great to hear!  Thanks for the report.

Although, I can only imagine the refresh time with the filled card.   :wink:

@tristanklingsor wrote:

I haven’t tried it yet with a Rockbox installation, mainly because I infinitely prefer the sound signature of the original Sansa firmware. But I don’t see why it shouldn’t work.

 

The only difference in sound, with no EQ engaged, is that playback speed is a little more accurate with Rockbox installed. And that difference is not very big…a lot of people don’t even hear it.

With a card that size, I would think Rockbox would be mandatory, just to avoid the database refresh.

Marvin_Martian wrote:

 

 

With a card that size, I would think Rockbox would be mandatory, just to avoid the database refresh.

 

Or the 8,000 ( +/- ) track limit. But then isn’t Rockbox’s limit 10,000? If so, one could exceed that number too with that much memory space.

@tapeworm wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:

 

 

With a card that size, I would think Rockbox would be mandatory, just to avoid the database refresh.

 


Or the 8,000 ( +/- ) track limit. But then isn’t Rockbox’s limit 10,000? If so, one could exceed that number too with that much memory space.

With low-bitrate files, I guess…I have less than 7,000 on my 64GB player.  I just looked and the file browser limit does appear to be 10,000.

Both original and Rockbox sound the same to me.

Rockbox hopefully will support more songs in the future. Seriously, why not just make the song amount INFINITE? All you have to do is set the value right? Just make 0 infinite and set it there. No point in making limits. 

@trantalocked wrote:

Both original and Rockbox sound the same to me.

 

Rockbox hopefully will support more songs in the future. Seriously, why not just make the song amount INFINITE? All you have to do is set the value right? Just make 0 infinite and set it there. No point in making limits. 

Turns out the Rockbox limit was not 10,000 files, it was 10,000 folders.

However, even with a 64GB card, assuming you get one to work, how many files do plan on cramming into it? lol.

@trantalocked wrote:

Both original and Rockbox sound the same to me.

 

Rockbox hopefully will support more songs in the future. Seriously, why not just make the song amount INFINITE? All you have to do is set the value right? Just make 0 infinite and set it there. No point in making limits. 

Rockbox already supports infinitely many songs, although I think the fat32 file system will limit you to something like a few billion files per volume. So beyond that you might have to partition your SD card.

Actually wikipedia says FAT32 is limited to 268,173,300 files. So if you want more then 268 million files, you’d need to partition your disk into multiple FAT32 file systems :slight_smile:

My music library is 38.4GB at the moment. I guess I would get by just fine with a 32GB card, but I think the main reason I wouldn’t actually buy a 64GB card is because of how expensive they are. $35 for 32GB vs $100 for 64GB. The choice is obvious.

Amazing, though, that the price is down to $100 (I remember not all that long ago when 32GB cards were more than $60). Now, if someone just would make a 64GB player (actually, I would like a 128GB solid-state player), and with a card slot . . . . But sigh, I’ve been saying this for years. :frowning:

@miikerman wrote:
Amazing, though, that the price is down to $100 (I remember not all that long ago when 32GB cards were more than $60). Now, if someone just would make a 64GB player (actually, I would like a 128GB solid-state player), and with a card slot. . . . But sigh, I’ve been saying this for years. :frowning:

Your prayers are answered! http://www.ibasso.com/en/products/show.asp?ID=78 :stuck_out_tongue:

@marvin_martian wrote:

Your prayers are answered! http://www.ibasso.com/en/products/show.asp?ID=78 :stuck_out_tongue:

 

Holy Moley! $829.00??? :dizzy_face:

And it doesn’t even do gapless?

@tapeworm wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:

Your prayers are answered! http://www.ibasso.com/en/products/show.asp?ID=78 :stuck_out_tongue:

 


Holy Moley! $829.00??? :dizzy_face:

 

 

And it doesn’t even do gapless?

It will…the website is a little dated now, but the 40-odd people that got the first models released into the wild have been asked to send them back for an update that all the players are getting, so that they will indeed do gapless. And of course you could have downloaded an app from the Android Marketplace that did gapless, if you could live without the silly 24-bit 192khz sampling BS “audiophile quality” files that some of the snake-oil drinking customers seem to favor.

The HifiMan wildly overpriced players don’t do gapless, as I understand…:laughing:

Thanks for the info. And well, the price now is down to *only* $765 . . . . :wink: Sigh, a bit too rich for my taste, when I figure the price should be, real world, no more than half that (with all due respect to iBasso–I know that a large company like SanDisk can affect a multitude of cost efficiencies). And, of course, with all due respect to the Apple iPod Touch, overlooked in my earlier post and which goes up to 64GB (but without a card slot–sigh, and shame on you, Apple). The elusive wait for a 128GB solid-state player continues on . . . .

@miikerman wrote:
Thanks for the info. And well, the price now is down to *only* $765 . . . . :wink: Sigh, a bit too rich for my taste, when I figure the price should be, real world, no more than half that (with all due respect to iBasso--I know that a large company like SanDisk can affect a multitude of cost efficiencies). And, of course, with all due respect to the Apple iPod Touch, overlooked in my earlier post and which goes up to 64GB (but without a card slot–sigh, and shame on you, Apple). The elusive wait for a 128GB solid-state player continues on . . . .

I know what you’re saying about it being too rich for your taste…it’s too rich for mine as well, until I join the ranks of the 1%.:wink: 

But I think you may be mistaken as far as how much it should cost.  The people with them are comparing its sound quality to reference desktop DAC’s, and also saying it has enough power to run some of the most power-hungry full sized headphones out there. A 64GB iPod Touch retails typically about $375-$400, and as nice of a unit as it is (despite what the haters  say) , it is in a different class than the iBasso.

Im having problems with my new 64GB card in my Sansa Clip. i can load about 5GB worth of music on it and it starts to fail. Files dont copy over properly at all. The Clip itself is fine - and I work on mac - done all the reformatting do daa but still it persists. I may be wrong but does anyone know if its due to it being a standard Micro SDHC card. Should I have got a Micro SDXC?

@rak wrote:
Im having problems with my new 64GB card in my Sansa Clip. i can load about 5GB worth of music on it and it starts to fail. Files dont copy over properly at all. The Clip itself is fine - and I work on mac - done all the reformatting do daa but still it persists. I may be wrong but does anyone know if its due to it being a standard Micro SDHC card. Should I have got a Micro SDXC?

All 64GB cards are natively SDXC and are formatted as exFAT. This format is not supported by any current mp3 player, SanDisk or otherwise. There is no such thing as a 64GB SDHC card.

People have had success in re-formatting these cards to FAT32 in order to be able to use them in their players, however the SanDisk firmware has a database limitation which you may be hitting. Some more (detailed) information from you might help someone here figure out what’s going on.

And if you hit the file limit, there still is a solution: installing and using the alternate Rockbox firmware, available thru rockbox.org.

Skip the HDGuru.  It takes hours and don’t bother with the partitioning.  You can also pass on the Rockbox Utility if you want to keep the original SanDisk  settings.

Download Fat32Format here  http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm.

Follow the instructions.  It took 5 seconds to format my card and it worked perfectly the first time.

I extracted the program to my desktop.

Make certain you know the drive letter that your computer asigned to the microSD card.

This is an example of what I had to enter in the DOS window ( and this applies to my computer only):

C:\User\acer\desktop\fat32format F:

I’m using a 64 GB SanDisk MicroSD Class 10 card.

@denmai wrote:

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