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Offline Kenr

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Play an entire catagory or artist
« on: June 21, 2007, 03:01:50 PM »
I am expecting to get jumped on for this one, but I have been through the docs and obviously missed it. When I try and play an Artist, Album, 'All Files", etc I would expect it to play all files listed under that choice. However it just keeps drilling down until I get to that song.

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Offline mschneider

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2007, 03:18:39 PM »
When you select your Artist/Album and then are you getting all of the tracks for that specific artist or album?
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Offline Kenr

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2007, 04:26:47 PM »
Yes, If I choose an artist for instance it will show me the albums, then clicking on that will list the songs
Artist->Album->Song
I guess my point is, I would like to be able to click anywhere along this and play all of the music under whatever I click on.
Not trying to plug the ipod OS, but it is just a nice feature that I am sure RockBox has, I am just missing it.
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Offline PaulJam

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2007, 05:17:41 PM »
I'm not sure if i understand correctly what you want to do, but you can play all tracks inside a "folder" in the database either by using the contextmenu of that "folder" (playlist=>insert) when playback is stopped or by using the [all tracks] entry.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2007, 05:35:06 PM by PaulJam »
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Offline bascule

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2007, 04:54:57 AM »
Kenr, what you need to do is a 'long' select on the intermediate level and do Playlist > Insert/Insert shuffled

This will either create and start playing a playlist of the whole album or artist, or insert it into you current playlist if you were already listening to music while selecting from the Database.
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Offline roolku

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2007, 05:22:25 AM »
Not sure what i am missing here, but although

Quote from: bascule on June 22, 2007, 04:54:57 AM
Kenr, what you need to do is a 'long' select on the intermediate level and do Playlist > Insert/Insert shuffled

works well - what is wrong with using "<All tracks>" ?
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Offline Kenr

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2007, 09:37:51 AM »
This where my confuses arises. If I click on the "All Tracks" using either the play, FF button or select button it just drills down and shows me all the songs under that choice, it doesn't play them,
I am able to do the "long select" that roolku suggested, it just seems like a convoluted way to play a selection of songs.
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Play an entire catagory or artist
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2007, 10:01:40 AM »
Have you tried just selecting any track once you've gone into All Tracks? You should then be in a playlist containing all those tracks, those tracks being relevant based on your previous filters.
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