M3U

[tableguy]

Could someone tell me how to import my m3u lists and files that are on a seperate external drive into my
ipod with rockbox? The extra features are hard to leave behind. Please!

I also have an IRiver with a MediaMonkey database and it works great. Most of my files are tagged with extra tags that MM supports and I have sorted them accordingly. Then I sync it with MM.

I have search far and wide and have seen alot interest, but no answers.

Thank You

[robin0800]

copy and paste into the playlist dir on the player I believe rockbox creates this but if not create it youself.
playlist catalog looks in this location for playlists

[tableguy]

Hmm.. ok   M3U list are in directory M3U inexternal drive Y and those lists point to the files in many folders on drive Y. What do I cut & paste?



Thank You

[Llorean]

Rockbox will ignore drive letters.

If your M3U has in it Y:\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3

and you put it on your MP3 player as

H:\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
(notice how the folders and filename are the same, only the drive is different)

then if you use that M3U in Rockbox, it should still work.

[robin0800]

You could also use

  ..\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3

in place of Y:\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3

this will definatly work its what I use.

[tableguy]

I'm still pretty stumped by this and have been trying to forumalte a question for a day or so. Like I said previously M3U's are in M3U folder: ie Y:\M3U\Rolling Stones
                                                            Y:\M3U\Chicago
                                                            Y:\M3U\Adult Alternative (is a user defined tag in MediaMonkey)



And the files are in Y:\Library\Rolling Stones\Forty Licks\Paint it Black.mp3
                               Y:\Library\Chicago\Chicago's IX Greatest Hits\25 or 6 to 4
                                Adult Alternative which MM finds and transfers over to my IRiver
                                and works great.

So maybe my problem is to find another M3U program, because when I transfer over to Ipod nothing
shows up in the files directory. I can search for them and they are on the Ipod but not in a M3U.

[robin0800]

This is a snipit of an m3u playlist

..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\01  Donna.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\02  Rubber Bullets.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\03  The Dean And I.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\04  The Wall Street Shuffle.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\05  Silly Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\06  Life Is A Minestone.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\07  Une Nuit A Paris.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\08  I'm Not In Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\09  Art For Art's Sake.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\10  I'm Mandy Fly Me.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\11  The Things We Do For Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\12  Good Morning Judge.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\13  Dreadlock Holiday.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\14  People In Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\15  Under Your Thumb.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\16  Wedding Bells.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\17  Cry.mp3

this can be saved with any name and extension m3u to the playlist folder on the ipod.
If your m3u is not like the one above there are many programs that can create m3u's fom windows media player onwards.
I prefer foobar 2000 because for me it can do many other tasks
Replay Gain, Rename Files, Rip CD's, tag from the internet and can convert audio files.

[tableguy]

I could do that through the database. How do you do it with a mixture of folders and files

[frause]

It's kind of hard to understand what exactly you are asking. An .m3u playlist is basically just a list of files with a relative or absolute path.

Maybe you should post one (or a snippet) of your playlists here so we can see if anything is wrong with it.

I have a suspicion the path in the playlist includes something not on the DAP.

Something like your playlist contains:

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Y:\Library\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
Y:\Library\Music\The Rockboxers\Rocking Your Box.ogg

And the files on your dap are:

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\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
\Music\The Rockboxers\Rocking Your Box.ogg

Rockbox would then search for the directory 'Library' and not find it. You'd have to replace 'Library\' with '', wich could be done in a text editor.

[robin0800]

Foobar can load either files or directories and just pulls all the files out of whaterver your directory structrure is.
Note it dosn't move or copy them just remembers their relative path
and uses this for its playlists etc.

[baobab68]

It looks like your M3U files contain too much of the path.

MediaMonkey can sync the files *and* the playlists to your player, whilst stripping off the excess leading information in the paths.

- Go to Tools/Options and click on Portable Devices in the left panel.
- Click on the plugin for your player on the right panel and then click on Configure.
- Go to the Synchronisation Options tab, and change the "Synchronise Tracks To:" path to be something like:

\Music\\

This will set it up to synch your music to the device, in the \Music folder. The rest of the path will follow the folder structure of the music on the computer, except it will drop off the c:\documents and settings\name\my documents\my music part of the path.

Hope this helps.

[LinusN]

I have a suspicion the path in the playlist includes something not on the DAP.

Something like your playlist contains:

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Y:\Library\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
Y:\Library\Music\The Rockboxers\Rocking Your Box.ogg

And the files on your dap are:

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\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
\Music\The Rockboxers\Rocking Your Box.ogg

Rockbox would then search for the directory 'Library' and not find it. You'd have to replace 'Library\' with '', wich could be done in a text editor.

This specific case is actually handled by Rockbox. It removes one item at a time from the path in the M3U file until it finds the file. In this case:

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1: \Library\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3 (failure)
2: \Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3 (success)

The problem is if the music is stored in a subdirectory on the DAP which is not present in the M3U path.

[frause]

This specific case is actually handled by Rockbox. It removes one item at a time from the path in the M3U file until it finds the file. In this case:

Oooh Fancy!

[tableguy]

Let me try to break this down again:

Ipod Video 60gig
Rockbox v. r13618-070611

Trying to copy CD's, Playlists, & M3U's to device

Manually cutting and pasting this:
Contents of G:\Library\CD's\02-Bon Jovi-Byrds\Bond
At 6/13/2007 9:21:05 AM, 1 item, 0 bytes

Filename   Size   Attributes   Modified
Born   Folder   [R]   5/3/2007 7:37:24 PM


Contents of G:\Library\CD's\02-Bon Jovi-Byrds\Bond\Born
At 6/13/2007 9:21:05 AM, 13 items, 62.09 MB

Filename   Size   Attributes   Modified
01-Quixote.mp3   4.37 MB   [A]   3/13/2007 7:18:52 AM
02-Winter.mp3   5.90 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:02 PM
03-Victory.mp3   4.69 MB   [A]   3/13/2007 7:19:12 AM
04-Oceanic.mp3   6.81 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
05-Kismet.mp3   5.27 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
06-Korobushko.mp3   4.88 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
07-Alexander the Great.mp3   2.75 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
08-Duel.mp3   4.07 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
09-Bella Donna.mp3   3.57 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
10-The 1812.mp3   7.03 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
11-Dalalai.mp3   4.14 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
12-Hymn.mp3   5.19 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
13-Victory [Mike Batt Mix].mp3   3.36 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM

it is transferred and the Bond directory is under the Library folder, but
the files are not displayed on the Ipod screen. The are only visible with
Explorer or MM


The same with this M3U:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:281,Bloodrock - Jessica
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\01-Jessica.mp3
#EXTINF:248,Bloodrock - Vhiskey Vengeance
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\02-Vhiskey Vengeance.mp3
#EXTINF:310,Bloodrock - Song for a Brother
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\03-Song For A Brother.mp3
#EXTINF:304,Bloodrock - You Gotta Roll
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\04-You Gotta Roll.mp3
#EXTINF:532,Bloodrock - Breach of Lease
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\05-Breach Of Lease.mp3
#EXTINF:383,Bloodrock - Kool-Aid-Kids
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\06-Kool-Aid-Kids.mp3
#EXTINF:246,Bloodrock - A Certain Kind
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\07-A Certain Kind.mp3
#EXTINF:78,Bloodrock - America, America
..\..\Library\LP MP3\1-B\Bloodrock\Bloodrock 3\08-America, America.mp3

the files are on the device but nothing shows up under "Files" or "Playlists"

... waiting patientally

[Febs]

Manually cutting and pasting this:
Contents of G:\Library\CD's\02-Bon Jovi-Byrds\Bond
At 6/13/2007 9:21:05 AM, 1 item, 0 bytes

Filename   Size   Attributes   Modified
Born   Folder   [R]   5/3/2007 7:37:24 PM


Contents of G:\Library\CD's\02-Bon Jovi-Byrds\Bond\Born
At 6/13/2007 9:21:05 AM, 13 items, 62.09 MB

Filename   Size   Attributes   Modified
01-Quixote.mp3   4.37 MB   [A]   3/13/2007 7:18:52 AM
02-Winter.mp3   5.90 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:02 PM
03-Victory.mp3   4.69 MB   [A]   3/13/2007 7:19:12 AM
04-Oceanic.mp3   6.81 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
05-Kismet.mp3   5.27 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
06-Korobushko.mp3   4.88 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
07-Alexander the Great.mp3   2.75 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
08-Duel.mp3   4.07 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
09-Bella Donna.mp3   3.57 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
10-The 1812.mp3   7.03 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
11-Dalalai.mp3   4.14 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
12-Hymn.mp3   5.19 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM
13-Victory [Mike Batt Mix].mp3   3.36 MB   [A]   1/30/2007 1:30:04 PM

it is transferred and the Bond directory is under the Library folder, but
the files are not displayed on the Ipod screen. The are only visible with
Explorer or MM

What drive letter is your ipod?  

When you look at that drive in Explorer, can you see the directory that you copied over?  

I don't understand what you mean by, "the files are not displayed on the Ipod screen."   Start Rockbox and select "Files" from the main menu.  Navigate to that directory.  If the files are visible in Explorer, then they should also be visible in Rockbox's File Browser.  If they are not, check your "Show files" setting under General Settings --> File View --> Show Files and make sure that it is set to "all" or "supported."