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redrick:
Hi,

(Please accept that for complicated reasons I need to be able to create playlists manually on my computer.)

This is an example of a playlist Rockbox made (dynamic.m3u)

/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/01 1. Streichquartett op 3 1910.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/02 2. Streichquartett op 3 1910.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/03 Lyric Suite- 1. Allegretto giovale.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/04 Lyric Suite- 2. Andante amoroso.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/05 Lyric Suite- 3. Allegro misterioso.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/06 Lyric Suite- 4. Adagio appassionata.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/07 Lyric Suite- 5. Presto delirando.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet/Berg String Quartet, Lyric Suite/08 Lyric Suite- 6. Largo desolato.mp3

This is one I made:

/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/02 Quintet for Piano and Strings.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/04 Tempo e Tempi - Tempo e Tempi.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/05 Tempo e Tempi - Ed e Subito Sera.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/06 Tempo e Tempi - Oboe Sommerso.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/07 Tempo e Tempi - Una Colomba.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/08 Tempo e Tempi - Godimeto.mp3
/MUSIC/Arditti Quartet et al/Carter Quintets and Voices/09 Tempo e Tempi - L'Arno a Rovezzano.mp3

The one I made doesn't work.  I put it in playlists and also tried a copy in root.  When I try to view it on my sansa/rockbox I just get:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
I have very carefully checked that the folders and filenames are correct.  What could I be doing wrong?

(BTW, odd there are 9 numbers and only 7 selections on my playlist.)

Llorean:
Are you sure the characters are right? For example, is it definitely "e" or perhaps "é" for example?

Have you tried using a program like winamp (or similar for whatever your native OS is) or a terminal command to generate a playlist from the real files, or how was this playlist created?

Also you need to let us know what revision of Rockbox you're using.

redrick:
Yes, characters are right.  I especially picked a playlist that had no "odd" characters that might confuse the matter.

Rockbox v. is 3.5.

Actually playlist was originally made on WMP.  I used it to load the files onto the player when in original mode.  I noticed that the .pl files that sansa made were similar to the .m3u files Rockbox makes so I simply modified them a bit to be, what appears to me to be, exactly what Rockbox uses, & changed the suffix to .m3u. 

Well, as you can see, it appears just the same but for some reason won't work.

Llorean:
Why don't you try using your method to create a playlist for the exact same files that Rockbox creates a playlist for, then do a comparison of the two files using a file comparison tool to see if there are any non-visible differences?

redrick:
EDITED

Yes, I'll give that a shot, and also try having rockbox make a pl of mine.  Hope I can get this to work somehow or other but I've tried this with a number of different files so far and nothing, no matter how simple, seems to work.

Regards, -Rick

This is really weird.  It just doesnt seem to recognize the files on playlists unless those playlists are made on Rockbox, even if the files I've made on my computer are precisely the same.

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