While you're at it, use Mark's "fidsift" to sort your fids into folders
Can you elaborate on this? What does it do, how does it do it, and how do I go about obtaining/installing it?
tanstaafl.
This one is more intrusive than the max fids thing. It is easier to use, but may slightly complicate your life next time you add more tunes to the player using v2 software.
It splits the massive /drive0/fids (and /drive1/fids if there's a second drive) directories into lots of much smaller subdirectories. This greatly improves filesystem efficiency on the player, but this really only affects database rebuilds.
It *does* speed up database rebuilds by quite a lot.
The problem with it, is that some versions of the player s/w (dunno which) sometimes download tunes to the original BIG directory, rather than to the appropriate subdir. I think this may be just a JEmplode issue, actually, but it's been over a year since I last peeked at it. Regardless, the sensible thing is to simply rerun it (fidsift.sh) after any new music dowloads.
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