If you’re following this thread, you may like to try the steps mentioned by other Mac users. TLDR: Use Legacy mode in OpenMTP. Failing that, try closing some processes. See this thread for more details.
As for these extra steps for Mac users, @urszula mentioned that it will be possible to manage music via Mudita Centre (even for Mac users) in future. Until then, if OpenMTP works, it’s an acceptable workaround. Hopefully, we won’t have to grin and bare it for too long.
Or just put the files on a micro-sd card directly. Works just fine.
SD cards are notoriously prone to failure.
im not sure how true this is, sd cards like any storage medium can fail, but the rates are generally quite low, while SSDs have a lower failure rate for example. SDs really arent that far behind. and ive never had a card fail from reputable brands.
like anything i wouldnt store important documents in a single location, always backup.
not that its a replacement for MTP which is good to have working as well.
Anyone who’s used SD cards in doorcams, dashcams, Raspberry Pi and such like can probably point to examples of SD card failure. I think there are extra resilient SD cards, which tells you how failure-prone the the plethora of standard SD are.
Yes all use cases I have them in, also cameras. I’ve no issues with them.
Yes they have ‘tough’ versions, these are usually designed for professional photographers to use in harsh environments to make them more durable to dust, dirt, water, bending etc, not because SD cards are unreliable. If that was the case no one would be using them and they wouldn’t be the default medium for camera equipment.
They do fail, especially if you’re using a lot of them every day all the time non stop you’ll come across a failure, a couple of your unlucky. But those use cases are not phone use cases which are often just reading from the card and not being used that much in comparison.
SD cards are fine for every day use. Just get a reputable brand. In the rare case it does fail, at least it’s replaceable unlike soldered storage
Odd that your experiences are so opposite to mine (and those of my inner circle). Perhaps you can recommend which one you use and where you buy them.
Thanks.
I tend to stick with sandisk extreme pro cards since i use them in my camera i tend to use them for everything. they have a lifetime warranty (or 30 years depending on country), better chips, and similar things. but even their basic ultra cards are generally good for every day use and have a 10 year warranty. the extreme pro cards are usually not much more than an untra anyway, like £8 more for 128bg so its just a no brainer to get that instead.
its worth noting that some of the use cases you mention are essentially 24/7 write operations which will wear our nand storage be it SD cards, SSDs or nvmes etc, even with wear leveling features.
but for a phone sfor storing music for example, which isnt really doing much writing to the card nver mind 24/7, i wouldn’t be concerned about any of sandisks models.
I’ve used Sandisk before, so perhaps we’re both right – the use cases involving a lot of writing on the SD card are what makes them prone to failure.
As for the cheaper Sandisk you mentioned: £8 more for 128gb.
I’m sure I’ve burned through many of these, so just for peace of mind, I would go for the Extreme Pro version.
One thing I don’t know is how the Mudita Kompact decides which storage option to use. For instance, what if I didn’t mind if it read from the SD card, but wrote to the internal storage.
I’ve burned through so many SD cards in my time that I don’t trust them.
yeah it really depends on the card. if your writing 24/7 to nand storage its going to run out of write cycles eventually, it will depend on the size of the writes. a off the shelf 128gb card put into a cctv camera writing 24/7 1080p footage may fail after 6 months are you’ve burned through the write capability, but a high endurance card designed for video writes could last over 2 years
a sd in a car for example has other factors as well, primarily heat from the sun which can effect lower quality (or less ‘professional’) cards.
another comparison, the same kind of card in a 24 megapixel camera taking 100 photos a day would last over 200 years shooting raw photos before showing signs of failure.
the same sd in a phone reading music, or perhaps storing photos from the build in camera of the kompakt would last somewhere in the region of 700 years
(these dont account for other factors, but in the latter two use cases the cards still outlast your life on Earth).
when it comes to nand storage its generally speaking all about the writes, if you’re writing significant amounts of data to a card 24 hours a day you would expect to have a replacement schedule for example.
perhaps you might have experienced failures on RPIs if you were doing similar writing to the SD or other services which are heavy write based, but generally, general use with some optimization (no logging, or log to ram, tmp to ram etc) of a pi should see it last a good amount of time
So, what about door cams? Actually, this is not going off piste. Never mind. If you have any tips on doorcams so SD cards don’t fail, PM me. (If it’s possible to do that on this forum.)
Wait wait wait. I can’t add music files via Mudita Center? That’s kkkkkind of a big deal. I’m on a very old Macbook Pro and did not think I had to consider that not being a function? I guses I can load all my files on an SD Card and go that route?
Honestly that might be the first big fail I’ve seen from this product. LP3 had a lot of them add up and made me abandon that idea but not having full access (transfer of music) to the Mudita center for Macs is a pretty big swing and miss.
They are working on adding this functionality, as per my knowledge
meanwhile you can easily add your music on the sd card or use MacDroid to transfer for an old mac
Managing music via Mudita Centre is coming. Ursula confirmed this. In the meantime, it’s possible to use OpenMTP (freeware) / Macdroid (freemium) to transfer files directly to/from the filesystem. If you’re having problems, enable ‘Legacy Mode’ in OpenMTP. (It took a lot of back and forth to arrive at that conclusion on this thread, but I hope it helps others and will also work for you in the meantime.)
Mac user here, Catalina in this case
MacOS 10.15.7
MuditaOS 1.1.0
Contacts: I could import the contacts from my iPhone via vcf but other than that I can’t seem to able to do anything other than erase already existing contacts.
Photos: I can’t even see my photos there. The only thing I seem to able to do is select them and erase them (same goes for the camera app in the Kompakt itself btw, no way of save them somewhere or share them).
Books: this is even worse, I cannot even upload books or see those already in the device (meditation cards). As it is it’s useless.
@tecnopope We are currently working on adding this feature to Mudita Center. It’s not a Kompakt issue, it’s making sure the feature is also added to Mudita Center.
I’ve uploaded books to the Mudita through the center and that worked. However, I could not see the meditation cards. I would like to delete the superfluous languages.
How do I download photos on MAC? I was thinking Mudita center; but it only allows me to only delete. I like to keep it simple. So is this feature coming soon?
@beyondgravity currently this option is not available in Mudita Center. Our team is currently working on revamping our desktop app to make sure that you can have more options than just delete pictures.