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classica1232:
I got Rockbox onto my iPod and was like, "Finally!" It took me forever to get the stupid utility to allow me to select a mount point. I turned my iPod on, and now I have 2 problems which three days of headache have done zip for.

1. For some reason, I don't have the selection "Playlist" in my Main Menu; all I have is playlist catalogue. I've managed to work around it, since you can access the majority of those settings with file manager and long select. Yay, but I still want my menu button. aAnyone else having these problems?

2. Playlists just hate me. I downloaded Songbird and also added on an Export extension so I could turn my playlist into .m3u8 files, or whatever it is that Rockbox uses. Hooray, everything works! The playlists even shows up in my folder with all the names of the songs and not ERSA or SVFG or whatever random letters I usually get. However, I click on the playlist to play it, and it goes to the screen as if it will play but then backs out to the previous pane and doesn't play anything. When I try to play my playlists created in-iPod, they work fine. It's the same file extension, so what's the deal here?

saratoga:

--- Quote from: classica1232 on April 13, 2012, 11:17:14 AM ---1. For some reason, I don't have the selection "Playlist" in my Main Menu; all I have is playlist catalogue. I've managed to work around it, since you can access the majority of those settings with file manager and long select. Yay, but I still want my menu button. aAnyone else having these problems?
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You're running some old build from before that was added.


--- Quote from: classica1232 on April 13, 2012, 11:17:14 AM ---However, I click on the playlist to play it, and it goes to the screen as if it will play but then backs out to the previous pane and doesn't play anything. When I try to play my playlists created in-iPod, they work fine. It's the same file extension, so what's the deal here?

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That means the files listed in the m3u file don't physically exist on the player.  Usually this means you've created a playlist pointing to files on your computer rather then ones on your player. 

classica1232:
Wow. I feel like an idiot now - that makes more sense. But I still don't get how you can not point it to the files on the computer, since that's where the ones on the iPod came from in the first place. Songbird is reading from my external drive to get the music, so how do I get a playlist file that uses my iPod as a source?

Also, my build is not an old one. I have the newest release, I'm pretty sure. I checked, because that's what I thought too.

AlexP:
What version do you have?

There was a new stable release yesterday, and there are multiple current builds every day.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: classica1232 on April 13, 2012, 11:17:14 AM ---I got Rockbox onto my iPod and was like, "Finally!" It took me forever to get the stupid utility to allow me to select a mount point.
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If you just complain about "the stupid utility" people are not able to do anything about it -- perhaps you've been hitting a bug that hasn't been noticed before, or you got into some misunderstanding because things could be labelled in a clearer way. On the Ipods you shouldn't need to manually select the correct mountpoint at all since autodetection can do that for you and is (to the best of my knowledge) 100% reliable for Ipods (this is not true for other players)


--- Quote ---The playlists even shows up in my folder with all the names of the songs and not ERSA or SVFG or whatever random letters I usually get. However, I click on the playlist to play it, and it goes to the screen as if it will play but then backs out to the previous pane and doesn't play anything.
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This sounds to be the problem. If you're syncing the files with the Ipod in a way the Apple firmware sees them then all files are renamed to "random letters". This is a limitation of the Apple firmware. However, Rockbox only shows the filenames in the playlists, so assuming that the files have been renamed because the Apple firmware can deal with them the playlist for sure is not pointing to the correct files.


--- Quote from: classica1232 on April 13, 2012, 11:32:59 AM ---Also, my build is not an old one. I have the newest release, I'm pretty sure.
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In general it's a bad idea to talk about "the newest release" or the like. You might have installed the most recent release when you installed it, but it's impossible for others to say which version that exactly was -- you might have installed weeks ago when a different version was the most recent release back then. Or you installed a release instead of a current build. So please always just name the version number as displayed by Rockbox, since that is absolutely clear.

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