Not Truncated - The folder and song name automatically scroll when they are longer than the screen space. Unless you have very long folder names - it’s not a problem.
On the card just use any hierarchical folder structure you like - you are just browsing the card.
Thanks for the info. and testing–there’s been question as to whether the 2000 + 2000 limit also affects folder browsing. From your experience, it doesn’t–great to hear!
My guess is that the split database was designed so that the internal 4 or 8 gig partition can be used with the database features for sports workouts. You get a few thousand songs with fast indexing. The external card is for browsing large number of folders and files.
I think that you are giving lots of credit. I think that, in the end, it may be due to the engineering restrictions of the parts put in the player, different from those used earlier.
> … there’s been question as to whether the 2000 + 2000 limit also affects folder browsing. From your experience, it doesn’t …
I have about 170 folders inside the MicroSD “Music” folder and many times that nested within those. For the last month everything has worked fine with lots of use.
Just did a couple of edits and name changes to a few folder names.
When the Clip Sport was disconnected it reindexed.
Now there are 4 folders that are sorted wrong (alphabetically) in the folder listing on the Sport.
One of the mis-sorted folders is from another level down (nested inside).
Not sure if this is related - There were a few posts that mentioned file sorting weirdness.
I can still see and play everything on the MicroSD card.
At the risk of asking a stupid question, what then does the database limit do?
I assume that it does not effect the number of playlists I can have nor does it effect the maximum number of songs which a playlist can list (999 I believe). And if it does not effect folder browsing, then what exactly does the database limit actually limit?
Guessing, I would assume that the majority of people play music by database listings–album, aritst, title–rather than by folder view. And the database limitations affect that.
I am unaware of any specific documentation about the Sport’s database - the manual only mentions the word database once.
But it does this type of stuff (from the rockbox manual)
“This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system. Using the information contained in the tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments, Apev2, etc.) in your audio files, Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist, Album, Genre, Song Name, etc.”
Thanks for your idea! – Under this circumstance I may give the Sport a chance. But what about shuffle play? Does it work in the folder mode, within the external card?
I see. – So it’s different than with Clip+ and Zip. It’s probably not the same kind of «folder mode» there, as the database is still in play (song infos are still displayed).