Patent ID: 8655463

Claim:
A method for avoiding refreshing a database of metadata associated with digital media content, the method comprising: performing the following during power up of a digital media player, wherein a memory device is connected to the digital media player at power up, and wherein the digital media player stores a database of metadata associated with digital media content: (a) determining from a latch in the digital media player whether the memory device was connected to the digital media player while the digital media player was powered down, wherein a battery powers the latch when the digital media player is powered down, wherein a clock of the latch is connected to a memory device slot of the digital media player, and wherein insertion of the memory device into the memory device slot while the digital media player was powered down causes a different state to be set in the latch because of a change in input to the clock, whereas removal of the memory device from the memory device slot does not reset the latch; and (b) refreshing the database only if it is determined that the memory device was connected to the digital media player while the digital media player was powered down as opposed to before the digital media player was powered down, refreshing the database.