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Getting .m3u playlists to show?

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jim234567:
New to Rockbox on my Sansa Clip+ (lovin' it already)  ;D



However I'm wondering what is the easiest way to get your playlists to show up under the "Playlists" option on the Main Menu (under View Catalog)?

I loaded several .m3u lists onto my player (made with Winamp), but in order to get them to show up there, I have to first load (play) the .m3u from the file browser, then do a re-save of the list on the player itself (which requires re-entering a name for it too). Finally I have to then move the saved .m3u8 file from the player's root into the actual Playlist folder because it's not saving there by default and I don't see a way to change the save location.

Seems I must be doing something wrong...  :-\ Is there a way to have the player automatically see playlists in the folder with my mp3 files and show them under Playlists like the OF does?

(forgive me if this is in the manual... I tried looking in there for it but I didn't see anything in the Working with Playlists section, and the rest of the manual is a bit daunting due to it's size lol)

TIA

Chronon:
The playlist catalog is a particular directory (/Playlists).  You are free to store playlists anywhere you like and simply launch them with the file browser.  If you want a playlist to appear in the catalog then simply save it to the /Playlists directory.  You can also cut and paste them to that directory from within Rockbox but it's probably easiest to simply put them there when you save them to your player.

jim234567:
I tried putting a list directly into there, but all it did was cause the player to not play anything when I tried to load it, and I had to reboot it.
Apparently Rockbox uses a different format for playlists within that directory than what Winamp (and RB's file browser) uses
(/<microSD1>/MUSIC/artist/album/filemame.mp3 vs. MUSIC\artist\album\filename.mp3).

So there's no way to have RB automatically find the playlists in the music files folder and automatically catalog them under playlists in the menu when initializing the database?  :-\

Chronon:
Because the microSD card is mounted to /<microSD1>, the path in an m3u playlist must contain this string or Rockbox won't be able to find it.  Rockbox will accept forward slashes or back slashes as delimiters (unix style or DOS style, respectively).

The playlist catalog is simply the set of playlists at /Playlists.  Rockbox doesn't do any scanning to find playlists in other locations.

jim234567:
Seems like this would be a useful thing to add (the Sansa OF already does it by default).

It's a multi-step process to get each of those lists into there (that has to be repeated any time I make updates to a list too).

Alright, thanks for the reply.

You wouldn't know why it doesn't save the list into /Playlists when I re-save it on the player, would you? (it saves it to the root instead for some reason)

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