Possible to Transfer Rockbox created playlists to another device with Rockbox?

[Logos]

I created a bunch of playlists on my Sansa e260 and want to transfer them to my Sansa e280R. I searched and tried to find info about how Rockbox handles playlists ,but most post were not about direct transfer between Rockbox.

Im hoping that the playlist file searches the database for the filenames. And it will skip the ones it doesn't find.Is this true?or is it impossible to have my playlist work without manually editing it based on the location of the songs in the new player?

[AlexP]

Rockbox uses the standard m3u playlists, which reference file paths.

[Logos]

That sucks.Wish it was able to just initialize the database,and then the playlist would simply read the database filenames and then rebuilt the playlist filepaths.

Is that just to hard to code?or is the processor just to slow to handle that type of computation?

[saratoga]

Is that just to hard to code?or is the processor just to slow to handle that type of computation?

Both.  It would also be difficult to figure out a way to implement it that worked all that well. 

[evilnick]

If you keep the same directory structure on both players, then the playlists should be interchangeable.

[Logos]

So I could keep the same file tree, but delete songs?Would that crash the playlist,or just skip the missing songs?

[saratoga]

So I could keep the same file tree, but delete songs?Would that crash the playlist,or just skip the missing songs?

What are you asking?

[bluebrother]

So I could keep the same file tree, but delete songs?Would that crash the playlist,or just skip the missing songs?

What are you asking?

I think he wants to hear:

if a track in a playlist isn't present on the player it will get skipped.

But I really don't understand how a playlist could crash

As for the database topic: two files having the same metadata (i.e. that part of the metadata the database uses) doesn't necessarily mean it's the same file. Or even the same content. You would need a way to handle this, which isn't trivial.

[evilnick]

If the directory structure on Device A is replicated on Device B and then the playlists from Device A copied to Device B, then the playlists can be played on Device B without any problems.

If you then delete files from Device B that are referenced in the playlists (that you copied from Device A) and play the playlist(s) then Rockbox will silently skip past the non-existent files.

[Logos]

Cool as long as I keep the folder hierarchy the same I can drag and drop my playlist files.Thanks for you help Evilnick