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Llorean:
The fact that you're entering a folder named root suggests you didn't read the link, nor understand what he's saying. Especially since the first suggestion was to enter the "base music folder" which is not necessarily your root folder. Just whatever folder all your music files and / or other music folders are in (it may be the root of your filesystem or it may not).

Why don't you tell us step by step what you're trying (probably after rereading the section of the manual on the context menu, and specifically the option in it to create a playlist based on the folder you're in) so someone can tell you which steps aren't the ones he told you to do.

Curator:
I followed his original directions step by step, the context menu wouldn't come up when highlighting the "music" folder and holding down the select button. Ive also followed tons of other suggestions step by step, as I have already stated, I have followed the steps in the manual STEP BY STEP,  I TRIED EVERY WAY Ive seen people suggest on the internet to do it , then entered the root folder to see if it was there since there was nothing about the playlist in the root directory , I am not an idiot, I KNOW what a root directory is, AS I stated already, I checked the root directory, wasn't there, so I checked the root folder too just in case that is what he meant, ALSO not there, then came back here to chrono sending me to a wiki about ROOT DIRECTORIES... I KNOW how to follow simple instructions, no need to be so condescending, it just so turns out, the instructions where not what was needed to fix this situation. (although I thank those who gave them for their effort.)

Now, I have solved the problem, something NOBODY else even suggested, just assuming im to stupid to follow directions, Decided to start from scratch, I removed Rock box from my player entirely, re-installed the original firmware, checked to make sure everything was working, then Manually installed Rock box, and now everything works.

Turns out the problem was with the rock box installer most likely (or maybe some sort of conflict with something on my pc?), cause the manual install is working perfectly, I clicked create playlist, checked the root FOLDER, and bam, right there,in the folder, root.m3u8, and it plays all of my music, And the method chrono originally related to me works now as well.

JdGordon:
Arg.... lovely thread.

Curator: I've just tried "menu > playlists > create playlist" and it did indeed work as expected, if you are willing to come back, please try it again, maybe it is a bug that needs fixing.

Chronon: please remember to not make up terminology and that it is better for everyone to assume users know nothing (better too much instruction than misleading or not enough).

Chronon:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on November 18, 2010, 06:39:40 AM ---Chronon: please remember to not make up terminology and that it is better for everyone to assume users know nothing (better too much instruction than misleading or not enough).

--- End quote ---

My apologies, but which terminology are you referring to?  I believe my only oversight was failing to mention "Recursively Insert Directories".  It has certainly not been my intent to mislead or cause frustration here.

If you are talking about my mention of the root of the player, this seems to be a quite common usage based on a quick search of the forums.  I certainly do not wish to cause further confusion, I simply meant that the path of the playlist will be /root.m3u8.

Curator, I am glad that you have discovered the reason that the instructions weren't working for you.  It was becoming apparent to me that the factor was specific to your setup.  It's possible that you just hit a bad build.  Rockbox Utility generally works perfectly for extracting the archive to your player.

Llorean:
One theory mentioned elsewhere was that his file view setting somehow got changed (probably to "music") so that the playlists weren't visible to him (though this wouldn't explain why he was unable to get the context menu to open at all).

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