fuzzyT;458791 Wrote: > In the most common use cases, won't the USB connected storage be > operated in an essentially read-only manner? And doesn't 'no writes' > imply 'no corruption' on disconnect?
The library database will be written to the storage device on which the music files reside. The marketing angle is that this allows you to have portable libraries and to swap libraries just by swapping USB disks (or SD cards). But there are also practical reasons for doing this. The Fab4 doesn't have a huge amount of nonvolatile memory, so it can't store arbitrarily large database files. Also, if you did store the database on the device then you'd have to deal with changing USB drives either by managing multiple libraries or else forcing a library scan every time the USB drive was changed. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67523 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
