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Topic: FAT/FAT32 |
George Redmon
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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 15 Jun 2008 10:46 am |
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| I am thinking of purchasing a music player system that reads FAT/FAT32 files? never heard of them. I did a forum search of course not much luck. How do i convert my music files to this file system. This player also accepts the plug in memory sticks, and those cards like digital cameras use. I'm just wondering how much room these files take up per song, and what they are,how hard is it to convert my wave file to this FAT/FAT32 system?? |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 15 Jun 2008 12:32 pm Re: FAT/FAT32
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| George Redmon wrote: |
| I am thinking of purchasing a music player system that reads FAT/FAT32 files? never heard of them. I did a forum search of course not much luck. How do i convert my music files to this file system. This player also accepts the plug in memory sticks, and those cards like digital cameras use. I'm just wondering how much room these files take up per song, and what they are,how hard is it to convert my wave file to this FAT/FAT32 system?? |
George;
FAT/FAT32 are formatting systems for disks and thumbdrives and have little to do with actual files (aside from available security options). You cannot and need not convert your files into FAT or FAT32. All versions of Windows and Linux, since about 1996 can read FAT32 partitions.
FAT is still used for formatting floppy diskettes and many USB drives come preformatted as FAT32. These are throwbacks to the days of MSDOS and Windows 95/98. FAT32 has serious limits on the capacity it can recognize on a disk and also creates rather huge sectors (clusters), into which files or fragments must fit. The only reason for the continued existence of these filing systems is backwards compatibility. Today's Windows OS's use NTFS, while Linux/Unix has its own unique filing systems, as does MacIntosh.
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John Cipriano
From:
San Francisco
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Posted 15 Jun 2008 4:59 pm
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| Yes even the iPods use FAT32 (if you use them with a Windows PC, with Macs they use something else). You'd be hard pressed to find a music player that worked with Windows that didn't require or at least support FAT32 as the filesystem. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 16 Jun 2008 1:59 am
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Interesting and I never gave a thought to what other devices used internally. But, using the older FAT/FAT32 system obviously is for backward compatibility.
Since Apple "marches to it's own drummer" I'm surprised the iPods would have a FAT system. |
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