Songs and folders not listed in playlist MUVO TX

Question

Hi everybody,
After trawling through 5 pages of posts, with no end in sight, and still not having found a post that would answer my question, I post it here and my apologies if this question has been asked and answered before.
I have a Muvo Tx Fm with 52MB, latest firmware .3.03
I have loaded 577 songs in 2 folders onto it (very close to 500MB), but when I switch it on and try to skip through the folders to the one I want to play, I find that only 5 folders are visible and some folders do not show every track that is in them.
I encountered this problem before and thought it might be related to the firmware, so I upgraded it to the version shown above. Everything was fine for a while, but now it has come back.
I copied all the files/folders from my Muvo onto my computer, then formatted the Muvo and put the original files/folders back on. Still the problem persists.
When I first noticed the problem, I discovered that the "missing" tracks would re-appear if I deleted some of the tracks that I could see in the playlist.
With my computer I verified that the tracks are indeed all there, and they are all tracks that can be played by the Muvo (WMA and MP3 formats without DRM).
Is there a limit to the number of folders the Muvo can handle? Previously I have known it to handle 3 folders in the root, now it shows only 5 of the 2 in the root.
Is there a limit to the number of files the Muvo can handle? This seems odd because I would expect that a player with 52MB would be able to handle as many files as you could reasonably expect to get on a 52Mb player.
What can I do to solve this problem? It seems pointless to load my player up with 500Mb worth of tracks, if I can play only a portion of them.

Answer 1

Thanks for that, Rhythman. I had a look at the tracks on my Muvo and unfortunately, most of the tracks have only the Title field of the ID3 tag filled in, not the other fields like author, album, etc. Some don't have any ID3 tag information at all, and only a handful of tracks have title, author, AND album info in the tag.
None of them use non-english or other weird characters, and none of them have licence restrictions.
I just deleted the content of one folder (some 48 tracks) and, after switching the Muvo off and on again, gained access to 3 more folders that were there all along of course.
This gives me a sneaky suspicion that the Muvo has a limit of around 52 entries in its playlist, something I would still like confirmation of from one of the forum's moderators, if possible. If this 52 entry limit is the cause, it would have been better if the folks at Creative had made mention of this in the user documentation, just to save us some confused head-scratching!
And if that is the case, how about a firmware upgrade that modifies the way a playlist is formed. Surely it is not necessary to load ALL track names at the same time? Load the names of all folders, and the names of all tracks IN THE CURRENT FOLDER ONLY. Then, when the last track in the current folder is played, scan in all the track names of the next folder. Simple, really. How about it, folks at Creative Labs?
Of course, my analysis could be wrong. I'd still like to hear if anyone else has encountered this problem and found a solution for it.