i am almost finished with the rio plugin. i decided to try a different approach to the memory management. let me know if you think this is totally wacky. first, it always annoys me that i have to manually decide which card to use or view, internal or external... it should not matter, it is just memory, right? So i decided to "flatten" the address space out on the rio. a user sees all their music together and can move the songs around as if they were truly contiguous. When the playlist manager syncs the current playlist to the portable device it then partitions the list and loads it onto the appropriate card. what this means is that if a song is on the external ram and has been moved in the list such that it should actually be on the internal ram then i download it temporarily to the computer and then reupload. it will take twice the time but at least a user can do it. another feature i want to add is the ability to span internal and external memory. i have 64 megs on my rio but only about 60 of it is useable. i end up having ~2 megs free on each card... it sucks, that last song from a cd won't fit.... so what if we just split the mpeg when uploading? sure it will appear as 2 tracks and there will be a small glitch in the middle but at least you hear most of it correctly.... what do you guys think of these ideas? elrod
