iPod With Video Trouble

[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]

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?

You're running some old build from before that was added.

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?

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]

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.

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)

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.

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.

Also, my build is not an old one. I have the newest release, I'm pretty sure.

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.

[classica1232]

Switching the file paths worked - I erased my. Songbird library and reimported everything from the Music Folder on my iPod, and now my playlists work fine. I also completely wiped my iPod to get all my music off and start over. Now it shows all the names correctly too. 

I did do a manual install of the current build; Playlist Catalogue remains in my menu. It's no biggie, since now that I understand the controls I can actually create playlists just fine, thought it might take a few extra steps because of the funny menu setup. It's cool, though.

You guys are all 10,000 levels more awesome than me; I have now officially been outdone in tech savvyness. Thanks so much for all the help!

PS. I'm not sure if the utility failing to recognize the mount point is a bug or not. It actually located the file path minus the actual volume, but the drop down list decided it didn't want to drop anything, and I couldn't select the mount point.  It knew I had a 5G iPod, but it wouldn't select the drive even with the name in the list. Eh. I restarted the computer and it worked fine - even recognized my external drive. If it is a bug, it's been noticed before, because multiple searches showed that both Mac and PC users had the same issue.