How do I display tag info on playlists...

[candp]

Howdy

I installed rockbox on my ipod the other day, so I'm still new to it all. I checked the faq and doco but couldnt find the answer...

How do I display id3 tag info rather than filenames on a playlist? I still have all my music in the standard iPod_Control/Music folder with the randomised filenames at the moment (I plan to fix that later...)

I found this... do I need to compile a custom build with this patch?
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8593

Ta!

[Llorean]

Yes, you need to compile a custom build with the patch.

[AlexP]

See e.g.  www.rockbox.org/wiki/SimpleGuideToCompiling

[candp]

Thanks guys. After reading through a few threads while the patches and stuff were down from the dos attack, I gotta say, I'm impressed by the level of help round here.

So I found what looks like a better patch (7652). But there was one hunk fail... I think it looks fairly trivial... anyone able to help? This is the .rej output (apps/playlist.c.rej)

***************
*** 527,532 ****
          playlist->fd = open(playlist->filename, O_RDONLY);
      if(playlist->fd < 0)
          return -1; /* failure */

      gui_syncsplash(0, ID2P(LANG_WAIT));

--- 551,558 ----
          playlist->fd = open(playlist->filename, O_RDONLY);
      if(playlist->fd < 0)
          return -1; /* failure */
+     if(lseek(playlist->fd,0,SEEK_SET) < 0) /* reset seek position*/
+         return -1; /* failed  */

      gui_syncsplash(0, ID2P(LANG_WAIT));

[kiwibird]

Why isn't this on by default? Does it make playlist scrolling even slower?

By the way, in case id3 tags do slow it down, is there any simple way to make the playlist starting displaying from the end (ie. right) of the filename? That would make the "View Playlist" option actually..well..usable, since otherwise one has to wait forever until the actual song name shows up...

(Hmm, the ".mp3" at the end should also be cropped there, that's totally useless...)