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How is the on the go playlist creation for SD cards?

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glahoiten:
So you mean to say that the SD card acts exactly the same as internal memory for rockbox, except that it is under a different folder for when you originally look for songs?

(merely mean to confirm, because for reasons unknown, other mp3 players seem to consider the SD card as a seperate beast, with seperate playlist-creation abilitiy. And because it seemed that in the other topic, the mention of the directory was addressing the problem of playlist creation on the computer, not necessarily for playlist creation on the go. (sorry if I'm being dense or misreading))

edit: great, now I'm still left uncertain of whether the SD card works for on the go playlist creation. *sigh* so close, and yet so far. If anyone could please confirm that it works (either by paraphrasing what the implications of the other thread are that I'm not seeing, or from personal experience) (either for the sansa clip plus, or another 32 gb sd card mp3 player), or if, Saratoga, you could explain if the microSD card being the root directory means that it can, in fact, make playlists on the go using the microSD card, that'd be great.

[Saint]:
Lets not overcomplicate things here.

You've made a few assumptions, or drawn some incorrect conclusions, worrying about something that's a lot simpler than you seem to think it is. Here's how it is in layman's terms:

"You may think of /<microsd1> as any other directory on the internal storage, and treat it as such."

That's great! But...

"Can I create 'on-the-go' playlists from media located on the microSD card?"

Yes.

The microSD card simply shows up as the directory /<microsd1> in the File Explorer and you can access the media on it just as you would access media on any other directory in the internal storage. If you use the Database, you will literally see no difference at all, any media files found during a database refresh will be added to the Database regardless of their location (be they located on internal or external storage).


[Saint]

glahoiten:
Hooray! Thanks saint. And I really wouldn't have ever thought it a problem if there weren't so many other mp3 players that seem to treat external memory differently for the purpose of playlst creation, for reasons unknown.

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