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Pono player issues with MC 32.0.58

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Awesome Donkey:

--- Quote from: RoyD on August 27, 2024, 08:29:59 am ---Since Microsoft dropped 32 bit with Windows 11 it's safe to say the Pono won't work with that either.
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Actually, that's not the case. 32-bit apps and drivers typically work just fine on 64-bit Windows. You'd just have to use the 32-bit version of Media Center instead of the 64-bit version in order to use it with a Pono, assuming there's indeed no 64-bit drivers for it. Otherwise 32-bit apps and more importantly 32-bit drivers work fine in 64-bit Windows.

Also you can run 32-bit Media Center on a 64-bit Linux distro too as long as it supports multiarch (which Debian and Ubuntu and Mint does), though I personally wouldn't recommend it as in my experience over the years it *can* cause issues and can be a hassle to get installed, but it can be done.

bob:
The Pono firmware is unfortunately awful.
Going through the usb connection to the internal storage is brutally slow.
I'd suggest you use the same approach that I do.
Put all of your media on the external microSD card and use that with a card reader on your linux PC.
Set that card up in MC as a manual handheld.
This works fine on linux or windows and it infinitely faster.
Note that when you put a larger card (I have 400GB) into the Pono and fill it up with material the Pono has to index it and that is also quite slow.
Just put it on external power and be patient until it finishes.

RoyD:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on August 27, 2024, 09:23:54 am ---Actually, that's not the case. 32-bit apps and drivers typically work just fine on 64-bit Windows. You'd just have to use the 32-bit version of Media Center instead of the 64-bit version in order to use it with a Pono, assuming there's indeed no 64-bit drivers for it. Otherwise 32-bit apps and more importantly 32-bit drivers work fine in 64-bit Windows.

Also you can run 32-bit Media Center on a 64-bit Linux distro too as long as it supports multiarch (which Debian and Ubuntu and Mint does), though I personally wouldn't recommend it as in my experience over the years it *can* cause issues and can be a hassle to get installed, but it can be done.

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Just curious as to why I can copy new music to both the main memory and the SD card (and delete songs) using nemo if the driver is a problem.

RoyD:

--- Quote from: bob on August 30, 2024, 07:52:13 am ---The Pono firmware is unfortunately awful.
Going through the usb connection to the internal storage is brutally slow.
I'd suggest you use the same approach that I do.
Put all of your media on the external microSD card and use that with a card reader on your linux PC.
Set that card up in MC as a manual handheld.
This works fine on linux or windows and it infinitely faster.
Note that when you put a larger card (I have 400GB) into the Pono and fill it up with material the Pono has to index it and that is also quite slow.
Just put it on external power and be patient until it finishes.

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I can copy and delete songs from the player using nemo and it works fast enough (much faster than MC). The whole idea of Media Center was making playlists easier than using a text editor.

bob:

--- Quote from: RoyD on August 30, 2024, 06:44:40 pm ---I can copy and delete songs from the player using nemo and it works fast enough (much faster than MC). The whole idea of Media Center was making playlists easier than using a text editor.

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If you have the latest firmware on the Pono it's slow as crap whether or not you use a program to copy the files to it or just drop them on a mount of the Pono.

An sdcard connected to a USB3 port with a reader is like 100 times faster.

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