how does a player (D2+) supports SDXC even before the Standard existed ?

The D2+ supports SDHC cards. If the SDXC card follows the SD 3.0 Specification (which means it has the same "chip structure" as SDHC cards), the SDXC card will work in a SDHC reader, like the one in the D2+.

So the standard that the 128gb SDXC card uses is old. It's not the new SD 4.0 standard, I assume.

as I know all new cards are UHS-I ( SD 3.0) & there isn't any UHS-II (SD 4.0 ) out in the market yet.
so if it is something about the version i guess it has to support all memories in the market for now
http://www.sdxc2.com/img/dual-row-pin-SDXC-cards.jpgUHS-II (SD 4.0 )

FAT32 60GB of music working on the D3 - listening to it as I type. [thumbsup]


PS: as long as you format using FAT32 it works on all Android devices.

can you please test your memory card transfer speed with SD Tools & share the results.

IMO, until the price of the 64gb microsdxc comes down to about $75 (more than half), it is a bad deal. When you can get a hard drive based mp3 player that holds double.

It's definitely a lot of money for 64gb extra space. But I decided not to take the risk and wait for it to go down in price - There is a chance that Sandisk and other manufacturers will move on to the SD 4.0 specification with all their cards when they begin releasing microSDXC cards of higher capacity. That was at least reason enough for me to pay 155$ for it. :P

..And guess what arrived at my door today. ^^

http://i.imgur.com/55irR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BKIis.jpg
Funnily the microSDXC card came with an SDHC adapter. But it worked great, just like it should. With the microSDXC card inserted into my laptop's SDHC reader I formatted the card to FAT32 using guiformat which razorblade has recommended at ABI. Worked just fine and I moved on to try transfering a few videos.

http://i.imgur.com/2Knu6.jpg
The J3 recognized the card and I was able to browse it just like I can with a normal microSDHC card. I have yet to try fill all 64gb up but will do later.

http://i.imgur.com/fDwqV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BgKz4.jpg
I tried connecting the J3 to my laptop and as kp-j3 + others have said Windows won't recognize the microSDXC card now. Tells me that I need to format it - not very surprising. Fedora (Linux) on the other hand reads the microSDXC card just fine from the J3's microSDHC reader. I will probably use Fedora to transfer files to the card from now on. Especially since it took me 30 minutes to get the damn card out of the included SDHC adapter. I hope I'll never need to use that thing again. >:-(

Anyway, looking forward to fill this thing up with my video library. It's either that or going FLAC with all my music. Haven't quite decided yet but I think I will test how well videos work when played from external memory. :)

The reason I started with (and stuck to) flash based players is that I used to use them on my motorcycle. But over the years I've managed to drop all my players on a semi-constant basis and figure I'd trash a hard drive based one in a heartbeat.

Capacity is extremely important to me, so I've already got a d2+ (although it doesn't sound as good to my ears as the j3 or iaudio7s) and a 128gb regular SD card on the way. The 64gb regular card in the d2+ exhibits the same weird 28.5gb windows behavior from what I've seen.

Neither are cheap, but I'll use the other cards in other places. So it was more like, buy another 32gig micro card, or try and push the envelope and reuse my old one for something else. The extra 3000 (j3) or 6000 (d2+) songs will be worth it to me, and will actually minimize write cycles & card swaps as I won't be reloading that often.

The 128gb "regular" card is really a SDXC card,...it's just that the pins have yet to be updated. That why we can still get away with using them, thank goodness.

I don't know if this is just me, or if it has to be the case for everyone, but I was unable to copy more than ~30GB to it when my J3 was in MSC mode (kept getting error 0x80070057), but when I switched to MTP mode it worked fine.

http://www.nokiausers.net/forum/noki...ing-files.html

"i got a workaround.

all i did was perform a scandisk having the "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sector" enabled on my memory card."

I tried that, it's still not working in MSC mode. And I realized after my last post that the tags were all screwed up after I dragged and dropped in MTP mode.

I tried syncing my files to the external thing with MTP mode instead of dragging and dropping and I'm having this issue again:
http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=37104

I haven't experienced it since the initial post since I stopped syncing and started dragging and dropping everything, but now that I'm trying to sync again it's come back.

[QUOTE=Urne;324654]It's definitely a lot of money for 64gb extra space. But I decided not to take the risk and wait for it to go down in priceQUOTE]

I think this is the key point here: I doubt 64gb cards with SD3.0 specifications will be made for long. I took the plunge because I also have an Android tablet and I can swap between the two. It's also great to have a few GB around to add that new album...

Writing Speed: 5.4mb/s
Read Speed:13.4mb/s

I have a class 4 in my SGSII that has read 6mb/s and write 21mb/s for comparison. Not too shabby and definitively highly usable to read FLAC files.