Does E-touch/Freebox have size limitations?

[HanoiBoi]

Does E-touch/Freebox have any limitations, whether it be number of folders, number of files, size of hard drive, size of data, etc.?

I'm in the process of previewing ETouch and I currently have over 2000 folders/albums on a 400GB HD.

Now, I know all my tagging is way off, but when I open ETouch and scroll through the main menu, using the 'More' buttons, I count an estimated 348 folders (would be 'album' covers).

Am I missing something?

-HanoiBoi

[Dannymh]

Hi mate,

The tagging is likely to blame, e-touch is pretty strict with this.
I have had the best results with Album Player for when tags aren't that great, that and also one called touchjams. I like both.

When I make jukeboxes for friends I put touchJams on them because its fairly easy to use. For my own I prefer album player though

[nipsmg]

Your jukebox will really only be as good as your tagging is. 

There are plenty of tools to auto-extract tags based on filename/directory structure if you've organized that way (Tag & Rename is my #1 recommended choice), but you can only really expect a well organized, easy to use jukebox structure once your tags are straightened out.  I had nearly 100GB of music that I did on a saturday.. It's kind of tedious, but with tools like Tag & Rename that allow you to pull down song/art/track information from Amazon and do all of it at once, it's not bad once you get into a rhythm.

I strongly recommend taking the time to get your tags in order.  You won't regret it.

Also, create a workflow for NEW music.  Any new music you grab should go into an "Uncategorized" or "Untagged" folder.  Process the tags, have tag & rename "rename" the files into the directory structure you're using, then drag and drop into your main music root.

Once you get this set up, adding new music is a breeze, and your jukebox will always be in order.

[HanoiBoi]

Hey guys,

Thanks much for the replies.  I d/l Album player and it sure organizes my stuff better than ETouch right off the bat.  I used it's Auto Lookup for covers and have been able to locate about 1300 in the past couple days.  I hear ya about getting into a rhythm!

What I'm not crazy about is Album Player's search, especially in Touch Screen mode.  So, I'll keep looking....

I will definitely look into Tag & Rename.  That sounds like exactly what I need!

I have to be honest, I don't really understand 'tags'.  I've always just put the .mp3 files into an album folder.  My portable players (Archos) never used tags and the ones that could, I disabled.  When I listen to music, I like to do so as full albums, so I never sorted by genre, year, etc. 

Perhaps that's my downfall.   

-HanoiBoi