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Here's a question, though: why can't we have both? The last couple generations of Archos players have both modes. When you go to play music, It lists Artist, Album, Genre, etc, but the first option is "Browse hard drive." Why can't we have that compromise? Is it really that hard?

It's not trivial -- if the player is to make soup out of files added over USB mass-storage, then it must do all the metadata extraction, database indexing and so on. But it's certainly possible: the Trekstor Vibez, for instance, has both soup menus and a hierarchical folders menu.

Peter