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[Sleeper Service]

I've come across a problem which is slightly annoying.  When I load music onto my memory card after a while it will show the card as full even if it's not.  

It seems this happens because the files - most of which were 'acquired' from torrents - do not have album or track art associated with them (and may have had originally) so the device creates empty JPEG files which must corrupt the memory counter and show the card as full.  Deleting these files removes the problem but it repeats itself.  

Is there any way around this aside from perhaps recoding the files through Audacity or associating dummy art files to them?

[Geronymous]

Sleeper Service, on Sep 22 2008, 22:01, said:

I've come across a problem which is slightly annoying.  When I load music onto my memory card after a while it will show the card as full even if it's not.  

It seems this happens because the files - most of which were 'acquired' from torrents - do not have album or track art associated with them (and may have had originally) so the device creates empty JPEG files which must corrupt the memory counter and show the card as full.  Deleting these files removes the problem but it repeats itself.  

Is there any way around this aside from perhaps recoding the files through Audacity or associating dummy art files to them?

In case this helps:

I had 722 songs in one directory. Those songs did not have any album art as tag, and TouchPlayer was able to play them, no problem, no error messages.
Then I used Media Monkey to put the right album art to each album. When I updated the Library within Touchplayer, it extracted the album art to a jpeg file of the same name as the song. Touch Player still working fine. Based on a tip by Hendrikson I resized those jpegs to a smaller size (I think something like 250x250) to make the transitions quicker.

What I have noticed that also speeds up considerably is if you remove from and copy back to your memory card all your music files after having done all this album art stuff... this reorganizes your files on the memory card apparently, allowing faster access (at least, that's the impression I get).

[Sleeper Service]

Geronymous, on Sep 22 2008, 21:44, said:

In case this helps:

I had 722 songs in one directory. Those songs did not have any album art as tag, and TouchPlayer was able to play them, no problem, no error messages.
Then I used Media Monkey to put the right album art to each album. When I updated the Library within Touchplayer, it extracted the album art to a jpeg file of the same name as the song. Touch Player still working fine. Based on a tip by Hendrikson I resized those jpegs to a smaller size (I think something like 250x250) to make the transitions quicker.

What I have noticed that also speeds up considerably is if you remove from and copy back to your memory card all your music files after having done all this album art stuff... this reorganizes your files on the memory card apparently, allowing faster access (at least, that's the impression I get).

Cheers.  I'll give that a go.