Thanks for the info on how the device lists the files. That will be helpful since I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize my files.
I hooked up a 2.5" 160GB portable drive. I had an issue powering it since the u310bt didn't put out enough miliamps to spin up the disk. I used a blackberry cellphone charger and spliced it into the miniUSB cable since it outputs about 750ma.
I have about 18,000 MP3's for ~900 artists that I'm dealing with organizing and trying to figure out the most efficient way to arrange them in the 500 folder limit.
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Thanks for the info on how the device lists the files. That will be helpful since I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize my files.
I hooked up a 2.5" 160GB portable drive. I had an issue powering it since the u310bt didn't put out enough miliamps to spin up the disk. I used a blackberry cellphone charger and spliced it into the miniUSB cable since it outputs about 750ma.
I have about 18,000 MP3's for ~900 artists that I'm dealing with organizing and trying to figure out the most efficient way to arrange them in the 500 folder limit.
Here's what I've done so far:
1. Used a tool called Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) to normalize file names to
2. Created ~25 top level folders by alphabet #-Z
3. Created sub folders to bunch artists into manageable chunks 50-80 files per sub folder
Issues I'm running in to
~1 minute to do a format read on the hard drive when I start the car
~the file listing issue this thread is talking about
~navigation to a particular artist/album is still a PITA
Anyone have any suggestions or experiences to improve this.
I really didn't want to buy a 120gig iPod, but that may be the best solution.
thanks
pt