Drag and drop adding of music?

[powderific]

I remember when I first got my neuros 1 using the sync software was generally a pain in the ass, and you couldn't just throw files onto the unit without using a sync program. There was some "find orphans" option or some such thing that always seemed to just delete all of my music.

With the newer firmwares, is it possible to just drag the files into the neuros and have the unit find them? Also, are there any significant differences between the firmware here and the garbage or whatever on the open source site? The site just says to look at the changelog, but that isn't really very helpful.

Thanks for any help.

[rcgcfn]

The latest version of firmware does have a file "browser" in it, yet it seems to be rather slow to scroll through lots of files.

As far as Garbage is concerned, I'm not totally postive as to what the differences are.  I'm sure it does explain how it differs, just it's a very long list.  You'd have to get someone else's opinion on it.

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[powderific]

Thanks rcgfn, the extremely long list sortof threw me off as I haven't used the Neuros since the firmware upgrade that allowed USB 2.0, so I don't really know the standard features either.

I'm glad to have a file browser, though I'm worried about the slowness. My neuros was already pretty slow browsing through large amounst of synced things. Does anyone know if the Neuros can search through and add them to its database without the assistance of a sync manager?

[rcgcfn]

Well, there I suppose I could point you towards Sorune . . . www.sorune.com . . . you can add all your music and files in Windows Explorer, they use Sorune's rebuild database function, and it will do it all by itself, with whatever is on the Neuros in the music directory.  Sound simple/fast/easy/convenient enough?

In any case, take a look at Sorune.  Using it to add music, it doesn't keep track of the database on the computer, it creates a database solely from what is on the Neuros to begin with, and what changes you make.

That help?

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[powderific]

My music computer is Gentoo Linux, but it looks like sorune should work fine with that. (it's not in portage though, so I'll have to install myself. oh well) Should be easy enough, what really annoyed my about NDBM is that it wanted to have ALL of your music that you might want to put in on it's own little stupid database.

That should work for me, thanks.

[Rockadile]

NDBM also works similar to Sorune in this respect.  I usually copy files manually and run NDBM to rebuild the database.  It'll work with any OS that has Java support.

You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/neurosdbm/

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