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Need help, can't skip tracks on Clip Zip on 3.13
IcarusMiles:
Yeah, it displays the files correctly at first, but as soon as it tries to play Japanese filenamed tracks, suddenly it just completely skips them, and changes names formerly displayed into "Err" and sometimes boxes instead of the characters, but sometimes the characters are still there. I even tried with the zipplus theme and no go. The default firmware, however can play my tracks in Japanese, so I'm not sure how to go about fixing this.
bluebrother:
Are you playing the problematic files via a playlist or from the file browser?
IcarusMiles:
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.
saratoga:
--- 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.
bluebrother:
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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