Sansa Clip + Rockbox 3.1.0 playlist creation issues

[greatgoogly]

Okay, I've been banging my head against a table for a day trying to figure out how to create a playlist that includes all tracks on my player.  I'm not sure of the version I had before, but previously I went to the root directly then went to playlist and "create playlist", which created a "root.m3u" file that was the playlist for everything on the player.  After the upgrade to 3.1, the playlist section in the main menu (which claims to still exist in the documentation/wiki page)  is missing.  I go into "Playlist Catalog" and try to create playlist, but just get a prompt to name the playlist, if I go ahead an name it I just have an empty playlist.   This should be one of the simplest things to do on the device so I'd be curious to know what's going on.  I've had to restore to using a third party playlist creation tool (used with the player hooked to acomputer) to create the playlist file I want.  It would be nice to know how to actually do this on the device.

[bluebrother]

Rockbox 3.1 is really old. Please update to a recent Rockbox version. Or are you talking about Rockbox 3.10 (the version having three digits doesn't mean it's three numbers ...)

[greatgoogly]

3.10 according to this (as well as the Rockbox Utlity installer) is the most recent stable release (dated December 7, 2011) http://www.rockbox.org/download/

[bluebrother]

3.10 according to this (as well as the Rockbox Utlity installer) is the most recent stable release (dated December 7, 2011) http://www.rockbox.org/download/

I'm well aware of this. However, you are talking about usin Rockbox 3.1.0 which is a different version. So to ask my question again: are you talking about Rockbox 3.1 or 3.10?

[greatgoogly]

sorry for the  confusion according to the system info field on my Sansa Clip + I am running version 3.10

[cereal_killer]

Hello greatgoogly,

at first set a directory as "playlist catalog directory" by using the context menu. Then highlight the folder, where all your music is in. Bring up the context menu by long pressing select and choose "playlist catalog". Then choose "add to new playlist" and a playlist containing all your music is saved in the "playlist catalog".

I hope I got the names of the items right, because I don't use the english language on my player.

As for the "create playlist" entry in the "playlist catalog" context menu that creates an empty playlist, I am also not sure what this is for.

Good luck and have fun with rockbox,

c_k

[greatgoogly]

Thanks C_K I'll try it.  One thing, will I be able to create a playist that covers all my music on both the device and the external SD card?

[cereal_killer]

Hello greatgoogly,

One thing, will I be able to create a playlist that covers all my music on both the device and the external SD card?

Sure. Just select "add to playlist" when bringing up the "playlist catalog" in the context menu on the other folder where your music is in and choose the playlist where you want to add this files to.

Greetings,

c_k