Hello I don’t know for sure where to ask questions like this so I asking here. I understand there are two main ways for managing the music on a DAP: Files and Folders or Metadata. Files and Folders use standard File System like FAT or FAT32. Metadata way is building a database which stores all significant metadata like Song Name, Artist and Album for each music file stored on Player. User then search for songs using metadata based hierarchy. As far I understand, metadata still uses standard File System, but it has another database layer with metadata above the standard FAT database. So I guess Metadata method needs more resources than File System method. Am I right? Can a Metadata Database be implemented on weak processors like old Sigmatel or Actions? I saw Metadata Search on a STMP35XX player and the performance was terrible. Very long system loading time and slow navigation. Is this a fundamental flaw or just a poor implementation? _________________________________________________________________ Play free games, earn tickets, get cool prizes! Join Live Search Club. http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_wlmailtextlink
