Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
Streamline playlist handling
Chronon:
Plenty of people do use playlists but don't necessarily follow your usage pattern. I create most of my playlists on the fly using Rockbox.
With this information I now understand what you are describing. Your playlists contain relative paths to the media contained in the same directory. Apparently, Rockbox can find the locations of the media on both internal storage and on your microSD card using these relative paths. Unfortunately, moving the playlists (which contain relative paths) breaks this ability since the relative paths no longer point to the correct locations. To work around this, you load the playlist from its expected location. Finally, you save this dynamic playlist using the option in the Playlists menu (i.e. Main Menu > Playlists > Save Current Playlist). Rockbox then writes a new playlist containing absolute paths with a default path of /default.m3u8.
I agree that some ability to do this sort of conversion as a batch process and to default to the playlist catalog would be nice. Do you think a plugin would be suitable for this sort of thing?
jim234567:
Well my lists are much too huge to create or manage within Rockbox itself lol, so I think you can see my dilemma.
(and yes, the SD card is where I'm putting them, keeping them together with their respective song files).
Chronon:
Now that I understand your situation I will agree that a plugin (or some method) allowing easy conversion of playlists with relative paths to ones with absolute paths would be a nice addition.
nls:
if you have plalylists with absolute paths rockbox strips levels off in the left end to try and find the files so if your playlists had paths like c:/music it would match /music on your player. I do not know if it works with the microsd though, but maybe you can get winamp to save them with absolute paths and try it?
Chronon:
The usual problem there is that no amount of pruning will prepend the necessary string "/<microSD1>/" that will allow Rockbox to look at locations on the SD card.
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