Create playlists in windows for rockbox???

[Sepharat]

Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to create playlists using windows. I mean, searching inside the music stored in the (in my case) ipod with some program (for example winamp or whatever) and then saving the created playlist in a directory into the ipod. Is it possible or i need to create all playlists using ipod?
Thanks

[Chronon]

I believe that Winamp should work.  

In fact I have just verified that this works.  Any program capable of making m3u playlists of the files on your player should work fine.

[ColdSphinx]

Start Winamp, Foobar or any other musicpayer on your PC with m3u playlistsupport.
Create a new playlist from the files on your player and save the playlist as m3u to your player.

I think there are nearly nomore musicpayers out there without support for relative paths on the playlists.

[Yotto]

If you just want all the files in a directory, from a dos prompt in that directory type:

dir /b *.mp3 > playlist.m3u

If you want to do some subdirectories, do:

dir /s /b *.mp3 > playlist.m3u

Change your extension and playlist name as needed.

[ryran]

For the record, Yotto's first solution would only work if you kept the playlist created in the same directory of all the files.

The second solution isn't going to work at all for a dap, considering that the /s switch doesn't use relative paths.

[Llorean]

Why do you think an absolute path wouldn't work?

Rockbox ignores drive letters, so an absolute path should be perfectly acceptable.

[ryran]

Wow. So as long as you did that command from the root of the player, rockbox would load it with no problems, no matter where the playlist was saved?

[Llorean]

Aye, that'd give you a playlist of every .mp3 file on the player.

[Yotto]

Sorry, I only use Windows when I must, and when I must is at work, and I'm not at work so I don't have a Window's machine handy.  I thought /b did absolute paths.

If you only want the music from one directory (Say music/soft_rock/70s/ for some reason) and all subdirectories from there, then you'd just (from the root) type:

dir /b /s music\soft_rock\70s\*.mp3 > soft_rock_70s.m3u

Repeat for other directories.

[Yotto]

Now that I'm at work and can test it, I found this out (at least in XP):

If you include the /s switch, /b WILL use the entire path, no matter how you do it (ie from the root or from the directory to start in).  If you do NOT include the /s switch, the /b will NOT use the entire path, no matter what.

So, /s /b will ALWAYS work, while /b by itself will NEVER work, to create a good m3u file.

[Sepharat]

I have used winamp to create playlists and it works! But I still have some questions  . First one is, is there anyway to show information from ID3 tags instead of using the name of the file to show it in the navigator? It´s because i have all my files first with the track number and after that the name of the song so it´s a drug to find something from an artist. I had in mind something like choose the information you want to show from ID3 and in which order, like in some music programs like quintessential player
Second question is, when i´m reproducing a playlist and press the center button, instead of showing my actual playlist, it shows where the actual playing file is located so i have to hold the center button, then go to options of playlist and finish with show actual playlist. So, is there any way to configure rockbox to show actual playlist instead of the location of the current playing file?
And my final question is about the disk mode. With some old firmwares, when i connected my ipod to my computer or to a wall charger, it entered in disk mode automatically. Now, it enters in rockbox in normal way. So is there anyway to change this order, that when you connect it, it starts in disk mode and, to change it to normal mode you have to hold center and menu button during restart?
Sorry to ask so much but i´m lost with all the information about rockbox that there is in this forum and i don´t know where to look for what i wanted to know
Thanks