Hi! First timer, playlist format and creation?

[theopposite]

hello

some of these questions may not be directly pertinent to rockbox, however I am hoping the main rockbox question can be answered and maybe if anyone has some suggestion about the rest, nice

ok, so what is best to create playlists for rockbox?  I would love to create playlists on the pc and have them show up in rockbox.  I am running the latest rockbox in a fuze v2, which works AWESOME btw.

If there are any wiki links in conjunction with this topic, please feel free to chastise me and post them

I would probably like to use winamp for cd burning AND playlists, could i use it in conjunction with rockbox easily?  Or since the original sanza firmware pops up when i plug into the pc that is impossible?  

anything pointing me in the right direction would be nice, thank you so much for this project

[jimbilly]

hi, I don't use playlist files, but I tried this with winamp, worked fine, but...

you have to do a text find/replace on the winamp m3u file to change the root path from your pc to the root path on the device:


1)your path on the rockbox device must mirror some portion of the file tree on your pc
2)you must change the paths in the m3u file
for example, find/replace:   c:\music\togo   with:  \music

then copy the m3u file to the rockbox player and play it.

you could script the find/replace somehow to quickly zap these winamp playlists.     there's probably an easier way to do it, like i said i don't use playlist files so.

[theopposite]

do you use some other type of playlist then?

thank you so much for your reply

[jimbilly]

no, i typically listen to albums just using the file browser on rockbox

if i want to mix it up i'll  'insert shuffled' on a larger folder to dynamically generate a playlist on the device.

to do that just browse to the folder,  long-select,  playlist, insert shuffled.

so, i do it all on rockbox on the fly

[Chronon]

2)you must change the paths in the m3u file
for example, find/replace:   c:\music\togo   with:  \music

This isn't strictly true.  If \music\togo exists on your player then Rockbox will look there for entries.  Rockbox will strip directories from the left (drilling deeper) looking for a match, so as long as the path to the file on your device is a subpath of the path on your PC it should be fine.

[jimbilly]

chronon,

nice!,  i did not know that,  like i said, i don't use playlist files but thats good to know.

thanks