Support and General Use > Audio Playback, Database and Playlists
Playing a saved playlist
pwabrahams:
--- Quote from: Chronon on July 04, 2011, 12:03:25 PM ---I just tried with a current build on my F40 and pressing Select/Right on a playlist listed in the playlist catalog results in returning to the Playlists menu but with the desired playlist loaded.
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I don't quite understand that. When you say the playlist is loaded, do you mean that it becomes the current playlist? How do you actually start playing it once it's loaded?
By the way, I wonder if it's possible to have the Playlist item in the main menu symlinked to the Playlists directory of Files. Or does that not make sense? If it were possible, that would make my problem go away instantly (and maybe knock out a bunch of code).
Post Merge: July 04, 2011, 11:03:49 PM
--- Quote from: JdGordon on July 04, 2011, 01:05:03 AM ---if you can do your own builds it owuld be great if you tested http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/11808 and helped get that finished as it vaslty improves olaylist handling
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Unfortunately I'm not sufficiently in the loop to be able to do my own builds. But if there's an experimental version out there that I can load as I would any other, I'd be very happy to test it (on the subset of features that I actually use).
Lear:
--- Quote from: pwabrahams on July 04, 2011, 10:08:03 PM ---I don't quite understand that. When you say the playlist is loaded, do you mean that it becomes the current playlist? How do you actually start playing it once it's loaded?
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It starts playing automatically. And it works just fine for me too. Are you sure you're actually playing the same playlist in both cases?
--- Quote ---By the way, I wonder if it's possible to have the Playlist item in the main menu symlinked to the Playlists directory of Files. Or does that not make sense? If it were possible, that would make my problem go away instantly (and maybe knock out a bunch of code).
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It already uses the file browser code, so the amount of extra code is negligible.
pwabrahams:
I still can't get a saved playlist to play via the main menu Playlists option. Here in more detail is what I did and saw:
1. On the main menu I selected Playlists with the Select button.
2. I selected View Catalog with the Select button. A list of playlists appeared.
3. I selected the playlist PLay1 with Long Select. A Context Menu appeared that started with Playlist.
4. I selected Playlist. I got a menu that started with View / Insert / Insert Shuffled
5. I selected View. The items of PLay1 appeared in a list, but I couldn't play them.
What did I do wrong?
Lear:
When in the view of step 5, does any line show an icon in front of it? Or the text "(ERR)"? What happens when you press select on one of the items?
pwabrahams:
--- Quote from: Lear on July 05, 2011, 01:58:20 PM ---When in the view of step 5, does any line show an icon in front of it? Or the text "(ERR)"? What happens when you press select on one of the items?
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AFter Step 5, which displays "View", a short Select does nothing. A Long Select brings up another menu with the title "Playlist". This menu contains:
Remove
Move
Add to Playlist
Add to New Playlist
Playlist Viewer Settings
I suppose I might eventually get to the right place by choosing "Add to Playlist", but that's certainly a very long way around the barn. As to "Player Viewer Settings", there is:
Show Icons
Show Indices
Track Display
Save Current Playlist
None of these seem to offer much hope of just playing the track.
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