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![]() Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-25-2019 04:13 PM I was running out of the 8GB of memory in my Sandisk Clip Sport and added the SDHC chip thinking it would expand the available space. Now I am reading that the SDHC chip has to be pre-recorded with music. Before I find a way to do that I have a few questions I hope someone can answer. Will the artists, albums and songs be available seamlessly between the internal memory and the SDHC chip? Will album art work for tunes stored on the SDHC chip and if so where should they be stored? Can playlists be made to play tunes arbitrarily stored in both main memory (8GB) and the chip (32GB)? Would it be better to put all the music on the SDHC chip and none in main memory? I apologize if this topic has been covered before by the forum. I was unable to find it discussed. Thanks for any insight! Olderguy Solved! Go to Solution. ![]() Re: Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-26-2019 10:01 AM
Re: Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-26-2019 01:32 PM Tapeworm, Thank you so much for yet again helping me. I am now noticing that my Clip Sport shows up on my PC as Clip Sport (F Olderguy Re: Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storage[ Edited ]Options
03-26-2019 03:56 PM - edited 03-26-2019 03:59 PM Another consideration is the 2000 audio file limit of the internal Music database and a separate 2000 audio file limit of the external music database. You may start to experience this OS limitation at 12 - 13 gb on the micro SD card. You can play around with m3u playlists to overcome this limitation. You should design playlists using audio files already stored on the internal or micro SD card. Playlists can reside in their correspinding subdirectories under Music.
If you decide to try using a 32 gb micro SD card, you could decide to read more about Playlists and Folder Mode within the dozens of messages about these topics in the SanDisk Forum. Re: About Album Art - Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-26-2019 04:04 PM I like to use the software "mp3tag" to embed clipart into my mp3 files. Typically for me, my iTunes "m4a" files do not display their album art and many times these m4a files do not play nicely with my Clip Sport. I like to use jpg files that are 250 x 250 pixlel size and 72 dpi. Most times I can find the corresponding clipart files on the Discogs web site, or else usig Google Images.
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Re: Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-26-2019 05:24 PM DFELD2005, Thank you so much for your help. I do have slightly over 2000 music files I want to put on my Clip Sport. Hopefully the album art files don't count. I guess if I experience problems I'll put music of one genre type back in the main memory and hope that solves the problem. I will follow your advise about playlists and definitely read about them in the Forum archives first. My last plea for help here was when I was having trouble with playlists compatible with my Ford Fusion
What a music ride it has been through the years: vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes, reel-to-reel, miniDiscs, CDs and now digital files. How incredible to have your entire music collection on an untethered device the size of a matchbook, listening with high quality headphones! Cheers! Olderguy
Re: About Album Art - Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-26-2019 05:36 PM DFELD2005, Thanks also for the advise on including album art. I'll probably stick with separate art files if they don't count in the 2000 file limit. I'll definitely look into the Discogs site. I laboriously scanned the CD case liners as I recently redigitizing CD cuts at 320 bps MP3 to improve sound quality from the 128/160 bps files I made many years ago Olderguy Re: About Album Art - Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-27-2019 05:47 AM Hey Olderguy, I think maybe we are in the same age group. My music listening and collecting hobby spans all the audio formats you listed in your earlier message. I started recording music off the radio using a reel-to-reel recorder in the early 60's. (Wollensak?)
Album art (embedded or saved as folder.jpg) will not count towards the 2000 file limit. Your idea about using the player internal memory for genre collections is excellent.
If you will be using 320 kbps compression in most of your mp3 files, then you may be less likely to reach the 2000 file limit in a 16 gb micro SD card.
AND, you do not have to worry about curating & fine tuning all your ID3 tag data if you figure out how to prepare m3u playlists for your needs. Playlist data does not rely on ID3 tag data. AND, I seem to enjoy using Shuffle Mode most of the time anyways. (You can shuffle within a Playlist.) Re: About Album Art - Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-27-2019 07:18 AM Hey DFELD2005, I found that my R-to-R Teac was an early way to play a lengthy sets of background music without changing media. Yep, I was wrong about having more than 2000 music files to store. I relied on the number of files reported by Explorer Properties. It turns out that I am well under the 2000 limit with room to grow so all is well. I must have a lot of album art files I need to thin down. I do use the shuffle mode frequently but also like to build extended playlists of tunes with common moods or nostalgic content. Being retired it is a good time to get my music organized. And a lot more fun than working on the 6 yards of mulch sitting on my driveway Olderguy Re: Adding a Sandisk 32GB Micro SDHC chip to expand music storageOptions
03-27-2019 11:06 AM
But do you guys remember the old 78's (rpm) that were about 1/8" thick or the wind-up "Victrolas" record players that played them? High-Fidelity they definitely were not! |