On the subject of database refresh times:
I have an 8GB Fuze v2 with a 16GB Micro SDHC (class 2 which means terribly slow read/write speeds, but no problems with playback). System info tells me that there are 2474 songs on there. The external SD card has only 74 MB free while the internal memory is at about 60% capacity. Most of the songs are Ogg Vorbis -q 7 so high bitrate and relatively large file size compared to widely used 128 kbps files. I also have a a few hundred mp3 files of all kinds of different sizes and bitrates. Everything is tagged and almost everything has embedded cover art. Everything has ReplayGain applied. There are a handful of photos, small video clips and text files on there as well.
The database refresh time is very much faster with the new firmware, and never hangs as it did occasionally with the previous firmware.
And now enabling ReplayGain doesn’t cause the White Screen Of Inconvenience.
I’m pleased with the new firmware. I like the Fuze a lot but don’t think it’s quite perfect. Ideally I’d like gapless playback and sane video playback and conversion. SMC isn’t any use on Debian, and in my experience is not that great on Windows either (installation overwrites existing installed codecs…which encoding applications would you prefer to break SMC, or the other stuff you use?) , but I doubt either will ever appear and I’m not going to worry about it.
