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Cannot get playlist to work
littlenick:
I've also had my problems with playlists I wanted to create (sigh!).
At last it seemed to me like the playlist has to incorporate also the information where to find the track on hdd/memory of the player.
Just creating a playlist anywhere didn't work for me so far.
Does rockbox look for identically named .mp3/.wma/.ogg and so on -files and actually create its own pathway to find them on the player's memory - in other words, will rockbox beat its own way through the jungle of files when it is told the filename (even if the memory is reshuffled by new downloads onto it)?
I apologize for interfering in a probably more seriuos discussion than I probably have right to participate.
Tom
Domonoky:
Rockbox will search the files under the path you specify in the m3u file. If it doesnt find the file, it will strip folders from the beginning until it finds the file, or has to give up.
So if you specify "C:/music/test/test.mp3" in the playlist, it will still find the file if it is located in "/test/test.mp3"
Regarding the playlist issues, if you are sure that the filenames are correct, take a look a the encoding of the playlist file. Maybe its written in utf8 (then it should be a .m3u8 playlist) or another encoding where rockbox has problems with. If you cant findout anything, you could post a working and a non-working playlist here, so we can compare ourself.
gulak:
It looks like the selfmade playlist is encoded in utf-16, which rockbox doesn't support. Convert it to utf-8 may solve the problem.
--- Quote from: redrick on March 03, 2010, 05:42:08 PM ---(BTW, odd there are 9 numbers and only 7 selections on my playlist.)
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8 and 9 are blank lines in the playlist.
--- Quote from: Domonoky on March 16, 2010, 01:40:17 PM ---Maybe its written in utf8 (then it should be a .m3u8 playlist) ...
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The extension doesn't matter in this case. There's no character above 128 in the playlist.
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