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ipod :)

ipod :)

Posted Nov 29, 2005 23:53 UTC (Tue) by omez (subscriber, #6904)
In reply to: ipod :) by b7j0c
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

> this would be the same with any player.

The Neuros machines will rebuild automatically if it can't find the song database on startup. Simply deleting the database after copying songs over is enough to get it squared away.

That said, reading the vorbis comments and reindexing tens of thousands of songs is best left to a beefier CPU/memory/disk arrangement. The positron utility for updating the device, allows you to listen to the fresh tunes the same day.


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