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djrichwoods:
This has been happening for some time now.  Right now I'm running a build from yesterday (18157) on an IRiver H320 and this has happened with nearly every build update for a while now.

This just happened today.  I pressed stop this morning when I arrived at work and the player shut itself off (I didn't manually turn it off).  When I turned it on again and pressed play the song playing was different than when I turned it off and the songs preceding it were completely different.

It doesn't always happen with I shut the unit off and I can't figure out anything that might be triggering it.

I think it's important to mention that I do manipulate my playlists using Foobar2000 (and, yes, I am using the players directories, not my computers thank you), but I was doing that before this started happening.

Thanks for your help in figuring this out, it's really starting to be annoying, especially when I'm looking forward to hearing some the songs coming up and the thing reshuffles itself.

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I'm not making this up... a reply, even if it's to ask for more information, would be nice.

bascule:
What's your 'Repeat' mode? http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-h300/rockbox-buildch7.html#x10-1110007.1

You may have it set to 'shuffle', although, even then, it should not reshuffle on start-up.

Try saving your settings, reset all settings to default, then loading settings again.

The other option is that your playlist_control file may be corrupt. Delete the file /.rockbox/.playlist_control and restart your player (ignore any related warnings on shutdown or startup). The file will get re-created at the next shutdown.

djrichwoods:
I had my repeat mode on shuffle...  I'll try switching it to off before trying the next suggestion...

So tell me if I'm doing something wrong here...

I have a playlist that I have been listening to for quite some time and one that I add new things to using foobar2000.  Usually I save the dynamic playlist as the playlist I'm editing and then open it, add to it and save it.

How does the dynamic playlist then respond to that if I don't restart the playlist from scratch?  I see the new tracks in the playlist so it seems they were picked up but could it be that that is what is causing my problems?

Thanks.

bascule:

--- Quote from: djrichwoods on August 05, 2008, 12:46:42 PM ---Usually I save the dynamic playlist as the playlist I'm editing and then open it, add to it and save it.

How does the dynamic playlist then respond to that if I don't restart the playlist from scratch? 
--- End quote ---

I'm really struggling with these two sentences, because I don't know what you mean. If you are using an m3u/m3u8 playlist, then you don't have a dynamic playlist. A dynamic playlist is what you have if you start playback from a folder or the database.

You seem to be talking simultaneously about editing the playlist on-the-fly (...I save the dynamic playlist as the playlist I'm editing...) and adding tracks to it using foobar, an entirely 'offline' activity.

Then the second sentence seems to imply that, having modified a playlist with foobar, you just resume playback and are wondering if this is confusing to Rockbox, which may be unaware of the 'offline' changes? This may be the cause of the problem, as Rockbox resumes playback based on some sort of indexing of the playlist file; if you've changed the file 'offline' and then just resume playback without re-reading the actual *.m3u file, it could get screwed.

But as I can't really tell what you are doing, can you explain the whole sequence of events you use to start playback, edit the playlist and then resume playback?

djrichwoods:
Sure...

But first let me try and explain what I meant by those 2 sentences...

I was under the impression that once a playlist started playing (let's call it xyz) it became a dynamic playlist that existed separately from the original playlist.  So let's say that I add some tracks using the insert function and delete some other tracks.  I assumed that those changes wouldn't affect xyz until I used the save function to overwrite the version of xyz that's in the playlists directory.

What I'm doing with Foobar is trying to get around the task of finding the tracks I've added and inserting them manually into the playlist through rockbox.  I open xyz into Foobar and then open the directory where I put the new music.  I drag the new music into Foobar and then save xyz in the playlists directory (which overwrites the version of xyz I was listening to).

I then go to Rockbox and resume playback and can see the new tracks in the playlist from the context menu.

Does this make more sense?

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