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How to Load Music--Please Have Mercy On Me!

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Blinkstar:
I know the first response I'm going to get is, "Did you read the manual?"

And the answer is: Yes, I read the manual. Not all of it, but the parts that I thought pertained to my questions ... and I didn't find the answers.

All I want to do is to copy my music onto my player ( Sansa Fuze v.2) and get it to show up, correctly, under the "Albums" directory in the Rockbox menu. (i.e. Files/##Music #/Albums).

The reason I want to do this, if it matters, is so that I don't have to do a lot of scrolling to find my music--with the file directly outlined above, I just click three times and I'm there.

I have been connecting my player to my PC and dragging and dropping my music folders into the "Albums" folder and that has worked okay ... except some folders end up being listed with a string of numbers before their names ... like this: A4010000_The Jam ...

A poster on another forum told me that I needed to change the OF to MSC mode in order to prevent this from happening. So I did, but now the "Albums" folder no longer shows up when I connect my player to my PC, so I can't drag and drop my music files into it ... Now I don't get the string of numbers in folder names, but I also don't get my music folders to show up under "Albums" where I want them to be ...

So--can any of you help me? All responses will be most appreciated! I'm hoping there is something really simple I'm overlooking. I have a feeling it shouldn't be this hard ...

BI0906BMXK:
When your player is in MTP mode, Windows will only find the stuff that was put on the player in MTP mode.  Likewise, when your player is in MSC, Windows will only find the stuff that was put on the player in MSC mode.

Rockbox is so cool, it can see all the stuff you put on your player whether it is in MTP or MSC.  Sync your player with a program capable of MSC syncing and it won't go into the ##MUSIC# folder.  This way when you connect your player back up to a PC, you'll be able to see all the files you synced.

Blinkstar:
Thanks for responding, BIO9!!!!

I ended up doing slightly different ... I made a folder, and named it "##Audio#"--that way it shows up first in the Rockbox menu, before "##Music#" and accomplishes the same thing as using the "Album" folder ... I wish there were a more elegant solution, but it is what it is.

Chronon:
You can set the folders as hidden and they won't show up in Rockbox's file browser unless you have Show files set to "All".

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