utgg wrote: 
> Agree it is almost certainly a player memory size limitation - the
> database is probably held in ram. Plus the use of 16-bit track
> references.
> 
> It's instructive to have a feel for how much memory you actually need. I
> would have thought 100 bytes average for per-track tag information would
> be plenty of allowance. That is only 6MB for 64K tracks, a pathetically
> small amount these days. In other words, if the player contained
> something like a raspberry pi with 512M of memory, it should easily be
> able to hold all the tag information for a million tracks in a well
> organised in-memory database. A decent sized artwork cache is another
> matter though.

100 bytes is nothing though and if the tags are unicode then you just
halved that. 50 characters wouldn't cover the song title + artist for
many of the bands I listen to.



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