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pondlife:
- Go into "Database" (and wait for the database to build if it's the first time you've used it)
- Highlight "Track" and show the context menu (long SELECT, normally)
- Select "Playlist" > Insert Shuffled

pondlife

AlexP:

--- Quote from: bobbydriver on June 22, 2010, 05:39:05 AM ---Actually if it's less complicated than my method I'm interested in learning how to do it!

--- End quote ---

There is an option called "Recursivly insert subdirectories".  Turn it on.  This only needs to be done once.  Now navigate to the top directory that contains all your music and bring up the context menu.  This is is usually by holding select, check the manual for your target.  From the context menu select "insert shuffled".

bobbydriver:
Ok - I had a look at this in a spare minute and the full instructions are

Only need to do Steps 1-4 once:
1) At main Rockbox menu go to Settings
2) Then choose General Settings
3) Then choose Playlists
4) Then choose Recursively insert subdirectories
 and set it to ON

Then
5) Back to the main Rockbox menu and choose Files
6) Navigate to the top directory that contains all your music and press & hold the Select button
7) Choose Playlist
8 ) Choose Insert Shuffled
9) Play a song and it should then proceed to shuffle all your music

Or you can do the "needlessly complicated" way

Only need to do Steps 1-6 once:
1) At main Rockbox menu go to Settings
2) Then choose Playback Settings
3) Then choose Shuffle
and set it to YES
4) Back to the main Rockbox menu and choose Playlists
5) Choose Create Playlist to insert everything into a playlist
6) Back to the main Rockbox menu and choose Files

Then
7) Navigate to the playlist file which will be called root.m3u8 and press the Select button. it should then proceed to shuffle all your music

GodEater:
So it looks to me like the "needlessly complicated" way is in fact two steps shorter than the other method... By most definitions that's *less* complicated. :D

[Saint]:
It really needn't be that difficult, and there really is no need to make a playlist to do this.

Step 1: Not even really a step. Not even necessary if you use the Database, just make sure recursively insert directories is set to on if you use the "Files" browser to do this..

Step 2: You can do this in the database, or the files menu:

Files: If you have a music directory (as in .rockbox/Music/), bring up the context menu on this directory (the manual can help you here, context menu is "long select" on the iPods), choose "Playlist", choose "Insert Shuffled".

Database: Open the Database, bring up the context menu on "Track", select "Playlist", select "Insert Shuffled".

After step 2 (either Database or Files method), your music will begin to play automatically


Step 3: Done.



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