Traditionally WP has been very tightfisted with SD access because of how its designed, where it was usable for the most part, for storing media and not too much else.
Recently however, MS looks to be loosening its lockdown on the SD. Some well-known developers/apps have been granted more access to the card, Pocket File Manager is one such app.
App installation to the card is supposed to appear, I don't remember if its confirmed, someone please confirm.
We're gaining more freedoms, but still nothing compared to traditional Android. (not familiar with the kitkat changes)
If completely unfettered SD access is that important, you best stay on JB I'd say.
Your starting to scare me. but, while you answered me, I crafted my next post, so I will post it just the same, but I'm starting to think I may have to test a windows phone prior to taking a plunge...
Well, here goes:
From KitKat, Android 4.4, apps will not have access to files on the SDcrad unless they are owned by the app trying to access it. This means that certain things will no longer work. In my case, I have nothing installed to my SDcard, but, I use a powerful 3rd party manager which allows to create, copy append and delete folders and files. With KitKat, it will only be capable of "reading" the files, rendering it useless. If one loads files from his PC to the phone's card, it's a fair bet the media player won't be able to normalize volumes, or even access it until DEVs find a workaround.
So goodbye Andro?d ? Not sure, but I'm investigating my options.
Using my PC's file manager to swap files is easy and reliable. From my SMB network to phone, or PC to phone or streamer to phone. Not a problem. It's easy, and familiar. I'm a fanatic audiophile with a Cartesian mindset, and I only use WAV files, and albums/compilations are sorted by folders the way I want them to be. My files are all stored and sorted using the following convention: (Artist - Album title) for folders, and (Track #, Song title, Artist, Album) for the music files themselves. Because of the size of these files, though, I have to rotate my albums I have songs and tunes weighing in at over 75Mbytes, and most albums are in the 450Mbytes range, so I can't stuff many of them on a teensy 32GB SD card (But the sound, man the sound... *teary eyed smile* Quality tunes is such a Joy...)
I don't like player software that "catalogs" my music by "type", "playlists" and by "album". That system has never worked well, and probably never will, because it is reliant on the subjective judgement of people, and some are quite stupid. I've seen Metallica classified as Jazz on FreeDB... This does not blend very well with my John Coltrane and Miles Davis, I assure you... All my albums are owned hard copy and extracted using EAC or Foobar2000, so I've seen the wretched state of the FreeDB and CDDB and similar classification DBs, and don't care to put in the effort required to correct all this BS. It is also why I haven't moved to FLAC, I really really don't want to deal with all this tag business.
So to move along with things, here what I need to know:
1 - Can I copy/append/delete files to straight to my phone using my PC's Windows Explorer ?
2 - Is there a decent file manager capable of all the same functions as a PC's Windows explorer ? (Using
ES File Explorer)
3 - Is there a decent player with folder view and browsing with super hi-resolution files support ? (I'm using
Neutron)
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