Did Anyone notice this little comment in the Release Notes:
Not that anyone reads these things right before installing the software right?
In reply to:
The player now supports a partitioning scheme for the fids directory, which
should improve performance when rebuilding the database. The partitioning
works by e.g. FID 34da0 is placed in (e.g.) /driveN/fids/_00034/da0,
where N is 0 or 1, according to the player's normal rules. Essentially,
the number (in hex) is zero-padded to 8 characters (xxxxxyyy) and saved
as _xxxxx/yyy....
... Nothing new there you say, well you're right, but then the notes continue thusly...
In reply to:
Note that the player won't create directories of this form. A future version
of the player will.
This code was partially back-ported, in order to
allow v2.0 betas to work correctly on players which had music added by v2.1
player code.
The mention of version 2.1 of the Player software is interesting - I gather from that that the player software is being used for products other than EOL'ed Empegs - but the software is indeed able to run on the said EOL'ed empegs.
Hmm, interesting - if nothing else this as yet unknown (by me anyway) project may help keep us in newer software versions for a bit longer when and if the team find time to backport the code, package it up as a 'release' and put it out there.
So perhaps: "one day there will be lemon soaked paper napkins..."
Oops, I meant [apologies to Douglas Adams]
"One day there will be a Empeg replacement- until then, return to your Empegs".
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