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Question on "entryage"
GodEater:
The only way to implement what you want is to get the database entries for items updates *as* they are copied to the device. Since Rockbox doesn't have a companion PC program to do this currently - it's just not possible. The database only gets to look at what to add when the file copying over USB has finished entirely.
I guess you could do a poor-man's effort with this by only copying one item each time you plug in USB, but that would be SOOO laborius.
So you could perhaps step up and implement a nice program which syncs that database as files are copied over. I'm sure people would thank you. (Not me though, I don't use the database!)
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I've just realised as well that you were asking for last 15 *Albums* too. I think the Rockbox database only measures the age of *tracks*, not albums. But I could be wrong.
Edit 2
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Do you perchance own some flavour of ipod ? Or some other player ?
quad:
no, i use a sansa e280.
i would apreciate this feature, because i use the sansa mainly for checking new music. i get a lot of promo-stuff which i have to check. i copy these albums to the player so i can check in the "last 15" whats new on the player. i often don't know what i copy to the device. otherwise i would "see" whats new, because normally you know what you have on your player. but it rotates so much on my device, that i don't know it. ;)
GodEater:
Well get coding then :)
pizza4me:
Is it possible just to drag/drop the new songs into a separate directory? Then you can just go into your "Files" (instead of the database) and open the directory you copied them to. If you make separate files for each album, then you won't have to worry about how it sorts them either. You could do by album/track, or artist/album/track, or both if you copy them in twice, I guess...
Actually, since you're using a Sansa, I would just get a 1gb SD card to use for your sampling (I'm assuming you would delete them as frequently as you are adding them). This way you could just plug the SD card directly into your computer, drop the new music files (separating by album if needed), and you're good to go. From the main menu on Rockbox select Files, and the top item on the list should be the SD card. Inside it will read them however you have them organized.
also: major kudos for the strongbad avatar, quad!
painkiller:
It is even simpler than that, there's no need to make separate files for albums:
Quickest way is to reserve a micro SD for this stuff. Set "Sort Directories" to "By Newest Date". Then you have always the newest folder (=album, the one that was copied last onto the SD) at the top of the listing.
This is just a workaround, but no coding involved ;)
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