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Streamline playlist handling

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jim234567:

--- Quote from: [St.] on June 09, 2011, 11:05:19 PM ---I feel I should point out that the playlist catalogue can be defined as any path you want it to be...

Just add:


--- Code: ---playlist catalog directory: /path/to/your/desired/playlist/catalogue
--- End code ---

To your config.cfg file.

If you want the playlist catalogue to be the root of the device (where playlists are saved to) then just use "/" as the path, done.  ;D



[St.]

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That's a pretty good workaround for the filepath during save part (thanks for the suggestion), though it still leaves this whole issue of having to manually resave again a list that already resides on the player with your music files.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: jim234567 on June 10, 2011, 03:45:09 AM ---...though it still leaves this whole issue of having to manually resave again a list that already resides on the player with your music files.

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I'm not sure what you're saying there...

With that addition in your config, you should not have to move anything at all after creating a playlist.

Here's how it should work:

- Add the line "playlist catalog directory: /" to your config.cfg file.
- Create and save a playlist to the root of the player.
- Open the Playlist Catalogue and enjoy your playlists actually being in there ;)
- Done.

The config file option changes the playlist catalogue to the root of the disk, so as long as you save playlists to the root of the disk (they go there automatically without intervention on saving  right?) it will automagically show up in the playlist catalogue.

Hope this helps.


[St.]

Chronon:

--- Quote from: jim234567 on June 09, 2011, 06:24:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: nls on June 09, 2011, 07:57:34 AM ---I would also like to point out that nothing prevents you from transferring playlists into the playlist dir directly, provided they have absolute paths.

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That's just it... anything I use to modify and save lists on my computer doesn't create the proper path of "/<microSD1>/MUSIC/file.mp3", Winamp saves them as "MUSIC\file.mp3" and of course that ain't gonna work. To get the "/<microSD1>/" thing I have to re-save it on the player itself.

If RB could do this automatically like the OF does, it'd make it so much easier.


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Can you explain a bit more what you're describing here?  What operations in Rockbox are you using to re-save the playlists?

jim234567:
I thought I had explained it pretty well in my OP. Though I'll try it again here... :-\

I have about a dozen large playlists that I've created and maintained over the years using Winamp (each containing between 100-2000 songs).
Winamp saves these lists as a .m3u file with a path structure based on the files being within the same folder they are saved in.
When I download these .m3u files into the folder on my player, they are not detected in any way when the database is initialized.
So I have to manually navigate on the player itself (using the tiny buttons & screen) to the folder where they are (which has thousands of files & folders in it), find the first .m3u list, then load ("play") the list so that it is now loaded into the dynamic playlist memory. Finally I have to then re-save it through RB's playlist menu so that the playlist is stored in a correct format that RB recognizes from it's /Playlist folder (then do this all over again for each remaining list).

I'm a little bit baffled that this is so perplexing to everyone and that all I seem to be getting any help on is the least-significant part of it all about dealing with the saved filepath being wrong.

Does no one here use playlists? How do you keep your player playing music for many hours on end without having to fiddle with reloading new albums or songs as they finish playing? (please don't say turn on Shuffle and Repeat, I don't want to hear the same thing over & over, I want to hear it all in the same order that I had created these playlists for).

 ???

saratoga:
I guess hes loading the playlists from the microsd card (using relative paths), and then saving them back out to the main disk (using the absolute path as seen from rockbox).

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