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torne:

--- Quote from: Sam Bald on March 08, 2010, 02:17:44 AM ---And I checked out one of the links in the Wikipedia article, and it said, "Support for M3U features varies wildly. iTunes, for example, will only render the first entry in an M3U file." So I guess Rockbox just doesn't support that particular feature of M3U files.
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M3U is not any kind of actual standard, it's just Winamp's playlist format; many players have ripped it off and reimplemented it, with more or less features, at various points in time. There's not really a checklist of what to support. :)

Yotto:

--- Quote from: Sam Bald on March 08, 2010, 02:17:44 AM ---
--- Quote from: Yotto on March 07, 2010, 11:40:27 PM ---I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article on M3U on putting a directory in an m3u file.

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Oh, it's there. It's the second example under the "Example" section.

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Wow. It is. I swear it wasn't there yesterday. I read the entire article twice. I was kind of tired, though :)


--- Quote ---I don't understand what you mean with shuffling. The playlist would just combine all the folders into one list, wouldn't it?

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Lets say your m3u file has multiple directories in it. Each has a different number of files. You load the playlist and say "shuffle". How does Rockbox choose which song to play?


--- Quote ---But what if you eventually delete the song that you bookmarked? Such as podcasts where, like you mentioned, you add and delete files daily. Wouldn't the bookmark disappear?

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This never happens to me (Well, unless I accidentally delete the file) becasue I only delete a file after I've listened to it, and so the bookmark I'm loading is always for a file that exists. In the rare cases where this did happen, the bookmark still exists, but won't load. It doesn't hurt, it just doesn't work.


--- Quote ---I do like your idea of the DOS thing; I didn't know you could do that.

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Yeah, m3u files are simply text file lists of other files. Any way of creating this list is viable, including a simple DIR command.

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