Creating a playlist with all my music

[pwabrahams]

According to the manual, I should be able to create a playlist with all my music by going from the Main Menu to Playlists and then selecting Create Playlist.  But when I do that, nothing happens.  I've tried both Select and Long Select on Create Playlist, but neither of those seems to do anything, and when I look at the Playlist Catalog, nothing is there.  I do, however, get a 3-byte file named root.m3u8 in my root directory as seen over the USB connection.  What am I missing?  (This is on a Sansa Clip+.)

Creating such a playlist would be very handy since then I could create other playlists offline by editing the full one.

[Chronon]

Load root.m3u8.  It is the playlist you created.

[pwabrahams]

How can I load root.m3u8 if it doesn't show up in the playlist catalog?   And why doesn't it have all my music files?

[Chronon]

You can load a playlist from any location using the file browser.  It's not necessary for a playlist to be in /Playlists/ in order for it to be loaded.

I don't think I can answer your second question with the available information.  Do some of your files have DRM?  Are some of them formats that are playable via a viewer plugin instead of a codec?  Basically, you should give us some idea of what sort of files are physically on your player but absent from root.m3u8 or nobody will be able to give you a decent answer.

[pwabrahams]

All my music files are in .ogg form, ripped from CDs, so there shouldn't have been any DRM or plugin issues.

I managed to create a playlist of all files in a different way: by going to FILES, then root, then using the Context Menu (as I recall) to turn all the files into a playlist.  But I'm still wondering why the first method gave me that empty playlist.

[Llorean]

You probably didn't have recursive insertion enabled.

[pwabrahams]

Well, I have recursive insertion enabled now.  I think I had it enabled all along, but I can't be sure.

In any event, the mystery remains as to why Create Playlist doesn't do anything.  To clarify, the sequence is: Main Menu, Playlists, Create Playlist.  When I press the Select button on Create Playlist, a message appears but it flashes by too quickly for me to read it.  (Any setting for changing that?)  Long Select also does nothing but doesn't produce the message.  In either case, nothing more visibly happens.  Am I perhaps in a bad state?  And if so, how can I get out of it?

[Leax]

In Main menu select Files (button Home for Main menu).
After that select folder you want create playlist for.
Press button Home again for Main menu.
Select Create Playlist - process will be started.
This is my "end point" ))

Now I need to find created playlist and start it )

P.S.: RockBox is very powerfull but absolutely not intuitive (in comparison with native firmware)  

[AlexP]

P.S.: RockBox is very powerfull but absolutely not intuitive (in comparison with native firmware) 

It is rather hard to be intuitive with so many functions - what one person considers essential another considers useless and it is often hard to judge which should be easily accessible, and which should (out of necessity) take a couple more steps given the finite buttons.  That being said, we are always open to suggestions should you have them, we might just not agree

[Leax]

Can I make some small propositions in different time?
Or is it better to collect a big quantity and send as one block?

[AlexP]

Sure, feel free.

You need to keep in mind that Rockbox runs on many different players, and we try to keep the experience consistent across all the devices.