By Lattitude I take it you mean a Dell. It seems the majority of machines these days ship with 250GB M.2 SSD "disks" I have an HP Elitebook and it was the same. I replaced the M.2 card with a larger sized one and it's really worth it. I think Microsoft is pushing the OEM's to ship small hard disks because they want to push as many people to OneDrive as they can.
These days I steal stuff off Pandora quite a lot because just about all of it is music that I originally bought on -records- (remember those black things that scratched when you looked at them sideways) and I figure why not let someone else do the work converting them to mp3, then you also lose all the clicks and pops and scratches since they are working with better masters than I have LOL. I always name the filenames the song and artist but put 000 in the front of the filename so they sort the way I want in the filemanager, to make a playlist I just replace the 0's with whatever number, and then copy the entire thing out over to a USB stick that the car deck takes. Whoever does the ripping for Pandora seems to take care to put the correct names in the tags so that's even less work and the deck nicely scrolls the name when playing a track. What's funny is my neighbor recently got herself a --record player-- and scours the thrift shops for those old disks. I guess they are the "in" thing now among the artsy types. I refrained from explaining the technology to her, as she's convinced the sound is better, LOL. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 10:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PLUG] Formatting confusion SOLVED On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:00:48 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[email protected]> dijo: >As a result I never use anything other than FAT or exFAT on this media >since you never know when you are going to have to force a manual >ejection and override the OS. > >But the journaling thing did not occur to me at all. That's even a >better reason not to use those filesystems on such media, wearing out >the media with excessive writes to a journal I have thousands of mp3 files that I created myself by ripping and encoding my CD collection, which has about a thousand optical discs acquired over the years. I began doing this in 2005 when I started with Linux, and at that time I used whatever flavor of ext was extant. (And note that the DMCA didn't exist back then.) Now, ext# has never had a problem with double quotes, colons and non-US-English characters in filenames, so they abound among my mp3s, e.g.: Voříšek: Symphony in D (Maazel). I use only 'folder' music players (currently Audacious), never those designed to require playlists based on tags, because everything I need to know about the piece is contained in the filename, and I like them played in alphabetical order. I could probably cut down the time required to edit all these filenames by using a GUI file manager that has bulk rename capability, but then you have to add the time required for to learn how to use the feature, and I have more interesting thing to do with my ever-shortening remaining lifespan. And I like the way they look now, So I might someday have a use for exFAT, but for now it remains unused on my computers. I would not bother with SD cards at all except for my small Latitude with removable screen, which came with only a 200GB drive. I could use a USB stick, but the Latitude will take a micro SD card that becomes invisible when inserted; one less device hanging on the side waiting for my clumsy hands to destroy it.
