confusion over basic playback

[rithym]

just installed rockbox on my ipod photo 60GB already had over 13,000 mp3 album tracks loaded using mediamonkey 3. I only installed rbox for the crossfade none of the tracks are live they are all tagged nicely under the genre Rock.
All I would like to do is play ALL the tracks in a random order with crossfading between tracks. I can't seem to get the software to achieve this I assume I have to create a playlist and then just play it in shuffle mode but I can't seem to get that far. When I go to database and choose select I can see building database it goes up to 13,600 ish then says reboot which I have done but still cannot play anything. TIA

[DefineByte]

When it says to reboot it means to shutdown and start it up again. Are you using select+menu?

[rithym]

yes am rebooting using select + menu I get the apple symbol then the rbox main screen

[MarcGuay]

http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-buildch3.html#x5-280003.1.2

[Chronon]

rithym, that's a hard reset.  You should only do that if your player freezes/hangs.  

[rithym]

ok ... thanks to link from MarcGuay managed to create two playlists 1 called dynamic.m3u (10, 000 tracks) and another called root.m3u (13,312 tracks)  I realised that the default settings were max 10,000 tracks for a playlist so I went into settings and raised it to 15,000 before creating 2nd playlist called root. So now I can play the tracks in a random order using the root.m3u playlist and the crossfade on mix is working a treat.

Can someone advise how to delete a playlist I don't need the dynamic version that was limited to 10,000 tracks. TIA  

[MarcGuay]

ok ... thanks to link from MarcGuay managed to create two playlists...

The link to that part of the manual was meant to help you understand the difference between "shutting down" and "hard resetting", but okay.  If you read the rest of that document, or at the very least search it (the html version is currently broken so you'll have to load the PDF), you'll find the answer to your deleting question and many others.   Bonjour!