playlist creation/editing on linux

[amishfury]

i find it much easier to just use my pc to edit and create playlists for rockbox

before i was using playlist creator 3 in windows but lately windows has been giving me troubles and i've had to use linux while trying to fix my windows problems

i've tried running playlist creator 3 in linux using wine and while it does run i can't access the settings to modify the extension filters or playlist formatting options

if anyone knows of any linux options that can create a rockbox compatible playlist file or a way to get pc3 running properly in wine please let me know

[Yotto]

I use "find," though if you want to base it on some tags inside the mp3s (like all jazz songs) you will have some troubles.

But to create a playlist of all songs, a simple:

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find . -name *.mp3 > mp3.m3u

works wonders.

[amishfury]

I use "find," though if you want to base it on some tags inside the mp3s (like all jazz songs) you will have some troubles.

But to create a playlist of all songs, a simple:

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find . -name *.mp3 > mp3.m3u

works wonders.

that's not going to work for me...

[GodEater]

Why not?

[amishfury]

because that's a quick and dirty solution that appears to only work for one format at a time... the majority of the files on my player are musepack but a few are vorbis or mp3

also i do occasionally like to create a specific playlist involving a lot of planning and careful track selection/placement in said playlist instead of just dumping everything in one big playlist and shuffling through that

http://www.oddgravity.com/app-opc.php   this is what i was using but as i mentioned... i can't access the settings so it is stuck on defaults which don't work with rockbox and omits .mpc from the extension filters

[Yotto]

find . -name *.mp3 > music.m3u
find . -name *.ogg >> mp3.m3u
find . -name *.whateverelse >> mp3.m3u
...etc

[audio-i]

http://amarok.kde.org/ ?

[amishfury]

found a workaround with manually modifying settings in the registry

[Chronon]

Any decent jukebox program should allow you to save playlists as M3U.

[amishfury]

but would they be compatible with rockbox?

the few native linux apps i tried pointed to /media/Sansa e280/Music/Artist/Album/01 - Title.blah  unless the playlist omitted the /media/Sansa e280 it wouldn't work

[Chronon]

Rockbox will strip directories from the left side of the path (base directories) looking for a match. 

I have a file, for example, at "/home/user/Music/Alice in Chains/Dirt/01 - Them Bones.mp3" on my PC.  Suppose this entry is written to a playlist.  If a file at "/Music/Alice in Chains/Dirt/01 - Them Bones.mp3" exists on my player then Rockbox will find it.

[amishfury]

i was not aware it would do that... oh well i got playlist creator to work anyway so no big deal