Music Metadata filling my phone memory?

Got a new VX8300, put a 2 gig micro-sd and *loaded* it up with music
using the VCast Music Essentials Manager.

Then I tried to take a picture. Got an insufficient memory error
message?! I have no music, no pictures and no videos stored in phone
memory, and I havn't downloaded any apps. So, I dug into the phone
memory and found 21.5mb used up by "Application."

Huh?

I tried power cycling. Nothing. I pulled the micro-sd out and found I
could still go into VCast and see all the music meta-data along with
albumn art. Hmmmmm ... Could it be that the data for 2 gigs worth of
songs, spread out over dozens of artists and albumns takes 21.5 mb?
Residing in internal memory?

Yikes!

Well, I'm thinking that the next step is to delete all the music through
the Music Essentials Manager, and see if that 21.5mb figure goes away.
If that's the case, I'm wondering if there is someway to pare down the
metadata. I really don't give a fig for albulm art - Can I turn that
off? I see that an alternative to using the Music Essentials Manager to
"Sync" my music is to load music directly to the micro SD from the PC.
I'm wondering if that avoids the big metadata load.

Any conventional wisdom or thoughts on this? Thanks!

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BG

BGhouse <wjghouse@nospam.yahoo.com> sed:

> Got a new VX8300, put a 2 gig micro-sd and *loaded* it up with music
> using the VCast Music Essentials Manager.
>
> Then I tried to take a picture. Got an insufficient memory error
> message?! I have no music, no pictures and no videos stored in phone
> memory, and I havn't downloaded any apps. So, I dug into the phone
> memory and found 21.5mb used up by "Application."
>
> I tried power cycling. Nothing. I pulled the micro-sd out and found
> I could still go into VCast and see all the music meta-data along with
> albumn art. Hmmmmm ... Could it be that the data for 2 gigs worth of
> songs, spread out over dozens of artists and albumns takes 21.5 mb?
> Residing in internal memory?

Well, in short, no. I using Bitpim I found appox 4.5mb of jpegs in
/my_music, named for all the songs on my sd card. I pulled the sd card
out, reinitialized the music library, my_music was empty, and I got 5mb
back. I put the sd card back in, the phone automatically reinitialized the
database, added all the jpegs back into /my_music, and I was right back
where I started.

Digging further, I found two files, loaded on the day I got my phone from
the local Verizon store, with file sizes adding up to afore mentioned
21.5mb:

MMS859023579.PDU 108162
MMS859023113.PDU 106O89

So, now I'm thinking these files were installed at the store when I agreed
to vcast?


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BG