Adding more than 8 folders.

[timster]

(10-09-2016 16:29)timalina Wrote:  

(10-09-2016 09:56)timster Wrote:  

(10-09-2016 03:03)timalina Wrote:  

(15-08-2016 13:43)simoncn Wrote:  The number of content directories (top-level folders) is limited to 8 and this number can't be increased. The number of subfolders under these content directories is limited to 65000.

Is there any reason for that particular subfolder limit and any likelihood of it being increased? I ask as my digital collection exceeds that.

More than 65000 sub-folders? Wow Would it be too much of a stretch to re-organise your collection somehow? To my mind and were it organised in the way mine is, that would equate to a combined number of 65000 artists and albums, or 100 albums by each of 650 artists. That is huge. Is the 65000 limit per top-level folder or in total? If the former then that'd be 8*65000...

It's more of an archive now than a collection (which sounds more justifiable than a pathological condition). According to Foobar I have 103,989 artists spread across 85,518 albums and 1,228,265 discrete items. I've spent much spare time of the last year consolidating it onto six hard drives on two servers (hi-def and multichannel drives on one server and four regular flac drives on the other) so now everything is relatively accessible, although being able to play anything via control points would be fantastic.

That said, I'd rather chuck the lot in the bin than start reorganisng it.

Lol, yes I see what you mean. Impressive archive.
At least you have them split over 2 servers, that should help. If they are both running minim, that's 130000 subfolders in total. Just need to know which server holds what. I think though some if not most control points may struggle with such a large number of items, so you really do need to alpha-group them.
Good luck!