saving playlists

[corpuscle68]

Hello Rockboxers:
  I've just jumped on the bandwagon, Rockboxing my Cowan iAudio X5L. So far I have been delighted. The flexibility in making a dynamic playlist and the fading between tracks are just tremendous.
  One problem I've been having is saving my playlists.
  I can get to the Virtual Keyboard and type in a filename. But what button saves it, or "accepts it"?I've tried long selects, short and long menus, play, and everything jumps me back a screen without saving.

Regards

Rolf

version r14407-070821

From the manual:
4.4.5.  Saving playlists
To save the current playlist either enter the Playlist submenu in the WPS Context Menu (see section 4.3.3) and select Save Current Playlist or enter the Playlist Options menu in the Main Menu and select Save Current Playlist. Either method will bring you to the Virtual Keyboard (see section 4.1.3), enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you’re done.

[GodEater]

I think section 4.1.3 is pretty clear on which button to push to save it.

[Mikerman]

I assume on the iRiver H1xx players, it's a short press of the play button (that's what I used last evening for the virtual keyboard, when renaming some filenames--I assume that the button is consistent across functions when using the virtual keyboard, but I could be wrong).

[GodEater]

Except he's using a Cowon iAudio X5L ?

[ColdSphinx]

On a X5 it's also the "PLAY" button on the side.

[corpuscle68]

Thanks! You're both absolutely right. A short play indeed saves it. And that is what the keyboard instructions tell you to do.

What led me astray was where the cursor starts when you enter the virtual keyboard, after " /dynamic.m3u8". I was adding strings of characters, ending up with something like "/dynamic.m3u8HOUSE1" and rockbox wasn't reading the resulting files as playlists, and I wasn't finding them when I backed out to the file folder to look for what I thought I had just saved.

Instead I move the cursor left, erase the word "dynamic", and put in my own name for the playlist. This seems to work so far.

These dynamic playlists save to the file folder. But if I go through playlist catalog, then entering a title works like you'd expect, and the resulting playlists are found in the folder "playlists".

I got a iAudio after reading alot about various DAPs. Now owning also an iPod nano, I wonder if the best DAP of all is a Rockbox'd iPod with the biggest hard drive you can find.

Regards

Rolf