romeodan
hi everybody
i have a question :
how many songs maximum should a folder have ?
i have a folder of about 75000 karaoke songs in cdg + mp3 (thats total 150000 songs) on a external usb powered 5400 rpm (usb 3 to usb type c connection) 1 tb hd
since i will find what i need with search i dont care about building categories for easy access.
will i have a problem with the size + number of songs ?
can vdj + my computer handlle it ?
computer 1 : hp i7 8th gen,12 gb ram,ssd hd internal,4 gb intel graphics card + intel hd
computer 2 : dell i3 3rd gen,6 gb ram,7200 hd internal,intel hd
computer 3 : i3 3rd gen,6 gb ram,ssd hd internal,intel 2 gb graphics card
computer 4 : lenovo i3 4rd gen,6 gb ram,5400 hd external,intel hd
should i break down the 150000 songs in to smaller folders for some reason ?
if yes how many files should i have per folder ?
thanks in advance
i have a question :
how many songs maximum should a folder have ?
i have a folder of about 75000 karaoke songs in cdg + mp3 (thats total 150000 songs) on a external usb powered 5400 rpm (usb 3 to usb type c connection) 1 tb hd
since i will find what i need with search i dont care about building categories for easy access.
will i have a problem with the size + number of songs ?
can vdj + my computer handlle it ?
computer 1 : hp i7 8th gen,12 gb ram,ssd hd internal,4 gb intel graphics card + intel hd
computer 2 : dell i3 3rd gen,6 gb ram,7200 hd internal,intel hd
computer 3 : i3 3rd gen,6 gb ram,ssd hd internal,intel 2 gb graphics card
computer 4 : lenovo i3 4rd gen,6 gb ram,5400 hd external,intel hd
should i break down the 150000 songs in to smaller folders for some reason ?
if yes how many files should i have per folder ?
thanks in advance
geposted Thu 03 Oct 19 @ 8:46 am
kradcliffe
Depends on the system. No hard and fast rule. If there is an issue it will be on the Windows side rather than VDJ.
I generally file my music by year and my videos by 10 year blocks and that has always worked well both on internal and external drives.
I always worked on the mantra that smaller folders were better but of course that started in the days of Windows 98.
I generally file my music by year and my videos by 10 year blocks and that has always worked well both on internal and external drives.
I always worked on the mantra that smaller folders were better but of course that started in the days of Windows 98.
geposted Thu 03 Oct 19 @ 9:14 am
PhantomDeejay
Yes, the OS is your enemy here and not VirtualDJ.
Despite the fact that NTFS can handle much - much bigger folders, your OS will start having trouble to access the folder as it tries to gather info for all the files of the folder.
On top of that add the fact that the hard drive itself tries to read the attributes of all those files each time explorer tries to access the folder and you have a big bottleneck.
Generally it's a good idea to break that folder down. I would break it at least to 15 folders, so that each folder has less than 10K files.
Despite the fact that NTFS can handle much - much bigger folders, your OS will start having trouble to access the folder as it tries to gather info for all the files of the folder.
On top of that add the fact that the hard drive itself tries to read the attributes of all those files each time explorer tries to access the folder and you have a big bottleneck.
Generally it's a good idea to break that folder down. I would break it at least to 15 folders, so that each folder has less than 10K files.
geposted Thu 03 Oct 19 @ 11:47 am