From a18bd164d9953007e44d84786737d44b662150e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominik Riebeling Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:44:26 +0000 Subject: some updates to tagcache section git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@9744 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657 --- manual/rockbox_interface/tagcache.tex | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'manual') diff --git a/manual/rockbox_interface/tagcache.tex b/manual/rockbox_interface/tagcache.tex index 3710ccfbd2..ef5e521278 100644 --- a/manual/rockbox_interface/tagcache.tex +++ b/manual/rockbox_interface/tagcache.tex @@ -20,14 +20,32 @@ The Tag Cache database can either be kept on disk (to save memory), or loaded into RAM (for fast browsing). This configuration option can be found in General Settings $\rightarrow$ Playback $\rightarrow$ Tag cache. Once the database has been built, you can browse your music using this -database. To use the database change the show mode by changing the General Settings $\rightarrow$ File view $\rightarrow$ Show files option to +database. To use the database change the show mode by changing the +General Settings $\rightarrow$ File view $\rightarrow$ Show files option to ``ID3 database''. This disables the File Browser and instead of the file browser you will now access the database. +% +\begin{description} +\item[Keeping Tag Cache on disk.] This does not require extra RAM for the +Tag Cache and speeds up the boot process, but is slower when accessing. +\item[Keeping Tag Cache on disk with Dircache enabled.] With Dircache +enabled updating of the database is much faster. Also updates can be +committed in background immediately. +\item[Loading Tag Cache to RAM.] The fastest mode is when loading Tag Cache +to RAM. New files are automatically detected and Tag Cache will get updated. +Use this for the fastest browsing and searching without any waiting. +\note{To use the RAM mode, first you have to turn on +Directory Cache in General Settings $\rightarrow$ System $\rightarrow$ +Disk $\rightarrow$ Directory Cache.} +\end{description} \note{You may need to increase the value of the ``Max files in dir browser'' setting (General Settings $\rightarrow$ System $\rightarrow$ Limits) -in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser.} - +in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser.\\ +There is no option to turn off Tag Cache completely. If you don't want +to use it just don't do the initial build of the database and don't load it +to RAM.} +% \begin{table} \begin{center} \begin{tabularx}{.75\textwidth}{XX} -- cgit