How does MMW determine if files on USB need sync?
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:39 pm
Guys...
Roughly 4500 FLAC tracks in library and most get written to a USB stick (MP3) I use in the car... About once every 6 months, I want to sync to include newly added tracks or rewrite/update tracks that may have seen tags changes...
This operation takes many hours on my Ultrafit64 USB3 stick. It takes so long that I force myself to wait so it's really worth it.
My car's system was reading empty playlists after syncing 2 days ago so I thought I'd resync but enabling "relative path"...
I can clearly see every single file being rewritten... So this is gonna take hours again but I see no reason why....
I had only added one new track to the library so I was expecting a quick scan then writing the new file as MP3...
May I ask what is involved in checking whether or not a file is updated or rewritten when syncing? Is a timestamp used? Is a tag used?
One thing I have to do for my car (2014 Mazda3) to refresh it's tracks catalog is I move the "music" folder and playlists files from the root of the stick to a newly "anyname" created folder... I then move everything back to the root before syncing again in MMW... Does this affect some timestamp of file id that MMW checks?
Thank for helping!
Roughly 4500 FLAC tracks in library and most get written to a USB stick (MP3) I use in the car... About once every 6 months, I want to sync to include newly added tracks or rewrite/update tracks that may have seen tags changes...
This operation takes many hours on my Ultrafit64 USB3 stick. It takes so long that I force myself to wait so it's really worth it.
My car's system was reading empty playlists after syncing 2 days ago so I thought I'd resync but enabling "relative path"...
I can clearly see every single file being rewritten... So this is gonna take hours again but I see no reason why....
I had only added one new track to the library so I was expecting a quick scan then writing the new file as MP3...
May I ask what is involved in checking whether or not a file is updated or rewritten when syncing? Is a timestamp used? Is a tag used?
One thing I have to do for my car (2014 Mazda3) to refresh it's tracks catalog is I move the "music" folder and playlists files from the root of the stick to a newly "anyname" created folder... I then move everything back to the root before syncing again in MMW... Does this affect some timestamp of file id that MMW checks?
Thank for helping!