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Need help, can't skip tracks on Clip Zip on 3.13
IcarusMiles:
--- Quote from: saratoga on March 16, 2013, 08:09:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: IcarusMiles on March 16, 2013, 06:01:12 PM ---The playlist fails. I have a playlist of "All" since I want to be able to play all of my music on shuffle. I do have my music in a few different folders, due to the the 999 track supported limit. I can navigate to what I think is a folder (because of the squares) and play some of the failed songs, but they show up as a series of squares, so if I want to play something specific, I have to guess as to what it is.
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So if I understand you correctly, your problem is two fold:
1) Your playlist files do not work, but the files themselves actually do play if you access them outside of the playlist
2) Unicode filenames aren't displayed with the font you're using
Basically two separate issues, with two separate solutions:
For 1, a playlist is just a list of file locations to play (in plain text). If you open it in a text editor you can double check that the files actually exist on your player. Keep in mind that rockbox will ignore things like drive letters and such.
For 2, it sounds like you need to use a unicode font, such as unifont, that supports the characters in your files. You could switch to a theme that uses a unicode font, or (I think) change the font to in the settings menu.
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Actually, the files display properly until the playlist tries to play them. It is only then that they start to be displayed in all squares, or in the ERR - [bunch of squares] format. Yet they display on the player properly while being played, when using the zipplus theme. I'm not entirely sure using the default theme, as I have never got them to play using the default, even when trying to navigate to them in the first place.
Do you have an easy way to switch fonts using the Zipplus theme? I'm sure I can figure it out on my own just by messing it about, but if there is some proper method I should follow, I'd rather do it that way.
IcarusMiles:
--- Quote from: bluebrother on March 16, 2013, 11:59:24 PM ---For 1I rather suspect an encoding problem of the playlist file than path errors. An m3u file dosen't have a specified encoding, it uses the local one of the PC that generated the playlist. A PC with japanese Windows will use an encoding different to the default one in Rockbox. Use m3u8 playlists (which use utf8 as encoding) or adjust the default encoding setting in Rockbox.
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I create the playlist using Winamp, on an American install of Windows 7. The files play correctly on Winamp, but fail on the default version or in a playlist on Rockbox. I will see if I can find a quick and easy way to create the playlist in utf8 format.
As I said before, the tracks display properly until the play list gets ahold of them.
IcarusMiles:
After having created an 'All' playlist in the m3u8 format, it seems to now play my music without skipping over the Japanese tracks. However, same thing applies, once the playlist gets to files, it changes the hiragana, katakana and kanji into squares, where once they were legible whilst searching out files. I guess I will still call this a solution, as I am no longer restricted to Latin characters, and if I can find the one song in Cyrillic and confirm that that, too can now be played, I will be pleased. Thanks everyone who has given me input!
saratoga:
Then all you need to do is use a theme that has Japanese characters.
IcarusMiles:
--- Quote from: saratoga on March 17, 2013, 01:18:22 AM ---Then all you need to do is use a theme that has Japanese characters.
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That's why I used the Zipplus theme... because it specifically reports to support Japanese characters. And they display properly, until they are set to be played for the first time.
I couldn't get them to play at all in the default player theme.
They display properly while playing, but I can't read them in the play list or even in the file selection once they play, because the characters all get turned to squares.
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