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sumdumguy:
I am sorry if this is in the manual but I could not find it.
How do I make a playlist on my computer and upload it to the player?
Let's say I have the following file structure:
C:\Documents and Settings\[...]\My Music\band1\disc1
C:\Documents and Settings\[...]\My Music\band1\disc2
C:\Documents and Settings\[...]\My Music\band2\disc1
C:\Documents and Settings\[...]\My Music\band2\disc2
and let's say I make a m3u playlist referencing files in all these directories.

Now my portable player has directories
/favs/band1/disc1
/favs/band1/disc2
/favs/band2/disc1
/favs/band2/disc2
Is Rockbox going to be smart enough to carry over references and adjust
root directories as needed on the fly?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: sumdumguy on March 08, 2008, 05:12:36 PM ---Is Rockbox going to be smart enough to carry over references and adjust
root directories as needed on the fly?
--- End quote ---
No -- how should it know how much to strip? Or by what to replace the part it strips? Rockbox strips a possible drive letter, thus you can create playlist when your player is connected to the PC. Or create playlists using relative paths (no idea which windows tools create such). Those will work fine (as long as they are in the correct location of course).

Llorean:
I think rockbox will actually try stripping one level at a time until there is just the filename. So if I'm not wrong, and I might well be, it would work if you removed the favs part.

sumdumguy:
Ideally if I place the playlist in top directory it should understand that I reference subdirectories. So if my playlist references
band1\disc1
band1\disc2
band2\disc1
band2\disc2
and I place the playlist in /favs it should know to look in appropriate subdirectories.
It could either be smart and recursively strip root directories until it finds a good match
to the directory structure in the playlist or be dumb and require me to manually
erase root directory part of each reference (since m3u files are text files, this is easy).

Anyways, from you answer it seems it does neither and I can only create playlists when the player is physically available to me. Is that correct?

safetydan:
It may just be quicker to try it out. I believe Llorean is correct when he says Rockbox will try stripping elements of the path until it finds a match. So Rockbox should work how you want it to.

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