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Support and General Use => Audio Playback, Database and Playlists => Topic started by: jagdriver on February 23, 2010, 11:53:27 AM

Title: Manually create playlist?
Post by: jagdriver on February 23, 2010, 11:53:27 AM

I'm not yet ready to use a tool like dbm. Rather, I want to manually create a playlist on my Sansa Fuze that uses tracks from both the internal ##MUSIC# and the external <microSD1> folders. I need some syntax help.

1) Should the file still have a .M3U extension?
2) For internal file paths, will ##MUSIC#\MUSIC\artist - filename.mp3 suffice?
3) For external references, will <microSD1\MUSIC\artist - filename.mp3 suffice?
4) Should I use \ or / in the filepaths?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Manually create playlist?
Post by: MajiKool Dragonâ„¢ on February 23, 2010, 05:53:39 PM

try this post from a while back.
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=19058.msg137405#msg137405
in it i explain how to create and edit a playlist on your player.

Title: Re: Manually create playlist?
Post by: jagdriver on February 23, 2010, 06:10:16 PM

Thanks, but I have several hundred tracks I want to add to a playlist. Having to add them one at a time would take forever (and drive me mad).

Please refer to the org. question. I want to know how to manually create a playlist that will play on my Fuze, drawing from both internal and external memory.

For example, I can use Notepad in Windows to create a simple list of mp3s—complete with fully-qualified filenames—and name it with an M3U extension. I want to know how to do something comparable that'll be fully compatible with Rockbox on my Fuze (again pulling tracks from both internal AND external memory).

Title: Re: Manually create playlist?
Post by: MajiKool Dragonâ„¢ on February 23, 2010, 06:18:20 PM

use "/"s
and for songs on the microsd... "/<microSD1>/" for the drive name... song stored on internal memory dont need drive name just start the file path with with a "/"

Title: Re: Manually create playlist?
Post by: jagdriver on February 23, 2010, 06:33:37 PM

Thanks... I'll try that.

Title: Re: Manually create playlist?
Post by: Chronon on February 27, 2010, 01:36:56 AM

I seem to recall that Rockbox accepts either front or back slashes as path delimiters.  It will also strip off directories from the left side of a path looking for a valid path to the file -- so, for instance, it should successfully find a song stored as /Music/Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin II/01 -  Whole Lotta Love.ogg in a playlist with a listing of /media/Sansa/Music/Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin II/01 - Whole Lotta Love.ogg. 

For files on the microSD card, a simple find/replace should enable you to replace the path for the mount point in your OS with the mount point in Rockbox (e.g. replace G:\ with \<microSD1>\). 

Title: Re: Manually create playlist?
Post by: jagdriver on March 01, 2010, 02:59:00 PM

Thanks. This format worked very well:

/<microSD1>/Music/New Folder/Andrew Bird - Masterswarm.mp3
/##MUSIC#/Music/Albert Collins - Tired Man.mp3