Rockbox Technical Forums
Support and General Use => Audio Playback, Database and Playlists => Topic started by: MattHemm on May 25, 2019, 01:37:14 PM
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Up until now I've had 0 issues with playlists on my iPod mini gen 1, but today when I went to the playlist catalog, I given the "No Files" message. When I check in the file directory both on my PC and iPod, the playlist files are shown there, but on my iPod they aren't visible unless I set the file browser off of "Supported". I've tried deleting and transfering a few times now, I've also tried changing to a .M3U8 file extension. I've pressed reset playlist catalogue directory many time to no avail, and am unable to play playlists from the file directory. Everything else on the device appears to work as normal. I'm using MusicBee to do file transfers, to my iPod mini gen 1 with a 32gb compact flash card installed. the only thing I haven't tried so far is re-installing Rockbox, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.
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Do the paths listed in the playlist point to files that still exist on your ipod? Generally the reason playlists fail is that the playlist has been moved relative to the files and now points to the wrong location.
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I don't think that's the problem. I've had playlists in the past that have songs that I no longer have on my iPod, and they simply play a different song when I pick said removed song. My problem is that my iPod won't even recognize the playlist files as playlists in the first place. Here's a screengrab of the playlist file and the corresponding file in the /music directory on my iPod.
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What do you mean by 'the file directory'? Also not sure what you mean by 'set the file browser off of "Supported" '
On my ipod it works correctly if the playlist files are in the (top level of the) "playlists" directory. (I export them from media monkey with a script and then copy them with windows robocopy to the ipod).
The only difference I see with the content of your playlists is that mine all start with ".." but I don't think that's relevant if your problem is you can't "see" the playlists at all on the player.
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What do you mean by 'the file directory'?
I was talking about the directory that one would find playlist files. (\Playlists)
Also not sure what you mean by 'set the file browser off of "Supported"
The file browser built into Rockbox is by default set to "supported" meaning it will only show file types that are supported(that it can read). I had to switch to "All" which make all types of files visible, indicating that for some reason, Rockbox doesn't recognize my playlist files as playlist files.
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Only other difference I can see is my playlists are .m3u - but rockbox is supposed to work perfectly well with .m3u8, so that shouldn't matter.
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Only other difference I can see is my playlists are .m3u - but rockbox is supposed to work perfectly well with .m3u8, so that shouldn't matter.
I originally had .m3u playlists, but changed them in attempt to get something working.
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Maybe try renaming your playlist with only a-z and 0-9 so 2000s.m3u8 instead of 2000`s.m3u8 and see if that helps.
ALSO there should be a header in the playlist to mark it as m3u8 but notepad wouldn`t show that so use something that can show special characters like notepad++ to open it
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That's a good point about the "'" character. Though I was assuming that not all your playlists have that character in the name? If they are all named like that, perhaps that's the issue?
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I'll give it a try, but like I said, these playlists were working flawlessly before they just stopped working for some reason.