Creation of Playlists outside of Rockbox

[key180]

It is a huge pain to create a playlist in rockbox.

If I understand correctly, this is the fastest way to do it:
Create a dynamic playlist which automatically adds everything in the folder to the playlist.
Delete the other 9 songs I don't want.
Go through a series of long presses and context menus to add each song to the current playlist
Save the playlist

This whole process takes me 10 minutes for a 20 song playlist. It should take about 20 seconds. Why can't I just use media monkey and import the playlist m3u

edit: I have tried using media monkey to create an .m3u inside the rockbox playlist directory. The oddest thing happens. I open the playlist from my Sansa Clip+ running ROCKbox and the playlist is loaded correctly for about 20ms. Barely enough time to see that there are the right number of tracks in the list and that the first song is correct. Then it goes back to the menu to select a playlist. When I try to hit the home key to return to current playlist, ROCKbox says, "nothing to resume".

[saratoga]

Rockbox uses standard M3U playlists, so you can in fact create them on PC.

However, as you've likely discovered, the playlists actually have to point to files on your mp3 player.  Making a playlist of files on your computer will not work because the files won't exist.  I suggest taking a look at the contents of the playlist you generated to see why it doesn't work. 

[key180]

Rockbox uses standard M3U playlists, so you can in fact create them on PC.

However, as you've likely discovered, the playlists actually have to point to files on your mp3 player.  Making a playlist of files on your computer will not work because the files won't exist.  I suggest taking a look at the contents of the playlist you generated to see why it doesn't work. 

Ah. got it now. Have to change the directory J: (or whatever the computer calls it) to <micro-sd> (or whatever rockbox calls it)

A simple find and replace all solves the problem!

[saratoga]

Also, if you put the playlist on the SD card, the <microsd1> will be appended automatically.  You only need to manually add it if the playlist is on a different disk then the files.

[evilnick]

If I understand correctly, this is the fastest way to do it:
Create a dynamic playlist which automatically adds everything in the folder to the playlist.

It'd be quicker to create the new dynamic playlist using a long-select on the file that you want to add, not the folder and then you don't have to delete the other 9 songs.