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Support and General Use => Audio Playback, Database and Playlists => Topic started by: alfiesty on December 05, 2009, 09:58:28 PM

Title: Best structure for classical music
Post by: alfiesty on December 05, 2009, 09:58:28 PM
I'm brand new to rockbox. I created a small test set of music in the format:
composer (folder)
           work (folder)
                      track 1
                          .
                          .
                      track n
I put this information in the "music" directory in my Sansa 240 with Kubuntu Linux. When I booted up the player there were no songs displayed, even in "Create Playlist". So my question is, what format works?

The reason I used this format was so, hopefully, I could have the player play randomly by the work directory. That is play all tracks in one work directory, then randomly select another work directory to do the same, and so forth. Can I do that?

This depends on knowing the order in which tracks are played in the directory, is this settable?

Jim
Title: Re: Best structure for classical music
Post by: saratoga on December 05, 2009, 10:12:55 PM
I think by default the music folder has the "hidden" attribute set by the OF, so I wouldn't recommend using it.
Title: Re: Best structure for classical music
Post by: yapper on December 05, 2009, 10:55:47 PM
I think by default the music folder has the "hidden" attribute set by the OF, so I wouldn't recommend using it.
This is correct. I use a folder called MP3 instead.
Title: Re: Best structure for classical music
Post by: Chronon on December 06, 2009, 01:54:16 PM
The reason I used this format was so, hopefully, I could have the player play randomly by the work directory. That is play all tracks in one work directory, then randomly select another work directory to do the same, and so forth. Can I do that?

This depends on knowing the order in which tracks are played in the directory, is this settable?

Jim

Now that you're aware of the "hidden" business, it shouldn't be too troublesome to set up the player to do what you want.  You'll want to check out the random_folder_advance_config plugin.  This will allow you to configure the set of directories you would like to use when randomly changing directories. 

When building a playlist from a directory, Rockbox adds tracks in the order that they are listed.