Thank you.
I soon realised after posting this that I posted my question in the wrong thread, I got somewhat confused when the last post above mine was rattling on about the X2S

I've since found the latest f/w for the X2S (currently on v1.2b but can move up to v1.6), I am now slowly catching up. How applicable is the advice given on the X2 such as using FAT Sorter to the X2S?
Currently I am enjoying the sound output of the little player very much, but the device seems buggy at times.
I loaded a 128gb microsd card with a stripped down version of my music collection (mostly MP3's). The folder structure consists of;
Root>Music>Albums>Files
about 59gb of content (5700 files contained within 270 folders) placed on a 128gb microsd card and then inserted into the X2S.
The problem seems to be I can only use the Folder icon to browse the music, attempts at getting the player to read tags and use meta to browse has failed (actually resulting in it wiping the card twice). It also appeared I could not get a Shuffle All to work properly, instead the shuffling would take place inside an album folder only.
So I tried extracting all my song/files out of their respective folders so the card now contains only files and no folders;
Root>Files (5700)
So whilst I can now access the Folder icon and Shuffle All successfully, the player is quite slow in terms of loading, selection, playback to the next track and so on.
In contrast, my Surfan F20 had no problem with the original folder structure and got straight to work with no qualms.
I want to like the X2S more, its sound output to size footprint seems perfect, but I just want to understand the player a little more (the manual is not very helpful) so that I can derive maximum pleasure. I thought with support for 128gb cards it could handle vast libraries, but perhaps I am mistaken and I am better to treat it as a High Res player, playing few single albums at a time?
But if there is a trick to load the music onto the microsd card so that it has less stalling in doing tasks then I'm good to do that (I'm guessing that has something to do with FAT Sorter link..?).
TIA
BB