| 摘要 |
An arrangement for enumerating data, such as media content including music, that is stored on external hard drive-based mass storage devices is provided by a media content processing system that implements a direct mass storage device file indexing process. This file indexing process is configured for finding all files and directories on the mass storage device, and reading through those parts of the files which contain metadata (such as album name, artist name, genre, track title, track number etc.) about the file. Use of the media content processing system reduces file enumeration time by minimizing the amount of physical movement of the read/write head in the hard disk drive that is used by the mass storage device. This motion minimization is accomplished by reading the clusters of directory and file data in a sequential manner on the hard disk, rather than randomly performing such read operations. |
