Well, my player is not exactly Grzelakian:

2 60GB drives (111GB usable)
14709 tracks
8.72GB free

Pre-sift synchronization time: 8:47
fidsift execution time: 24:45
Post-sift synchronization time: 4:35

48% reduction! Awesome. It seems like the player loads the music database significantly faster on boot, too (I wish I had done before & after timings of that process). Haven't experimented with navigation, etc.

Thank you again, Mark!

Bedtime...

Jim
PS: Everyone should do this to their player. In fact, I think we should move or copy this entire thread to General, since I doubt everyone reads Programming.

Edit: While the capacity may not be Grzelakian, the drives are! My player has 2 of Paul's old 60GB drives...