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Originally Posted by
lee730 
Nice review SW. I recommend you clean the tags up and remove all album art from these files that are loaded onto your Studio V. Remove all ID 3V2 tags as they don't play nicely with the V and replace them with ID3v1 tags. This can all be done easily on the fly with mp3tag. PM me for specific directions on how to do this in literally minutes to avoid having to manually make these changes (which can be a nightmare). This should greatly improve boot times and I'm sure, resolve you freezing issues (although the UI is still very buggy other than using the resource manager).
I was also informed that letting the V play for days on end won't yield you the longest battery life. If you test it by playing it back in 5 hour intervals you should get 55+ hours of flac playback time while 80+ with lossy files.
Having owned a Studio V for not quite a month, I've learned that clean tags with all album art removed (from the tags and the folders) really makes the UI much less annoying, and I unequivocally second Mp3tag (newest vesion 2.50, homepage: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) as an excellent freeware solution for all tagging needs. Also, Resource Manager, while still quite lacking, is presently the most efficient way to navigate that I've found. Finally, for what it's worth, I tested a fully charged battery by repeating a folder containing 117 mp3 files at V0 (~245 kbps) at volume level 13 with Screen Off set to Off (a double negative meaning that the screen was always on), and acheived 37+ hours of playback. Unfortunately, the firmware is such that the tracks played in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 11, 110, 111, ..., you get the idea, but the battery life is stellar.
