Media Go and Walkman A-15

[Colchemy]

I filled the 16 GB internal memory with music. If I now start filling the 128 GB card I've installed, using the same library files, will the same music I've already transferred to the 16 GB now be installed again into the 128 GB? Or is the software able to read the 16 GB storage and avoid transferring the same files?

[Anonymous]

Hi there

Yes, the same files would be duplicated.  I have some MP3's that belong in multiple albums, Compilation Discs and Artist CDs, these files are duplicated on mine.

Cheers

[NPLorand]

I also have an extra 128 GB memory card installed on my A15, and there was no need to duplicate on it the music stored in the internal memory. The A15's firmware reads the content on the internal memory and the memory card as if they are a 16 +128 GB continuous memory. You'll see two different cards just when connecting it to the computer.

[Colchemy]

I think you misunderstand my concern. I don't want to duplicate files, I want to prevent that Having filled the 16 GB internal memory, I then changed the target to the SD card. What is to stop the Media Go software from installing the same music files on my SD card as it has already installed on the internal memory? I ask this because the SD card got full before it should have. If Media Go had transferred only the music files it had not already transferred, the remainder should have fitted. Now I have the problem of how to find out. I cannot view both memory areas in the player in Windows Explorer, because I have to switch between internal memory and SD card on the player. The screen will be refreshed. I will lose either one or the other file list on my computer screen. So I have no way, at the moment, of detecting duplicates. Unless, that is, Media Go avoids it. But the link on the help screen in Media Go does not work, so I am somewhat in the dark about it.

[NPLorand · Accepted solution]

Copy the files from the internal memory in a temporary folder on your computer and then compare the files with those on the sd-card.