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.)
