iAudio X5 special case in random playback on filesystem level

[netdive]

Hej all,

i'm rellatively new on Rockbox due to i modified my X5L with CF Card and i look up for my problem some hours but either their is no direct solution or i didn't found it...

What is the situation:
Due to my work in a radio station, I have the most important part of my radio archive on the X5 (something around 20k songs), the files are well sorted on the file system like /artist/year - album/trackno - title.mp3, they are also well ID3-tagged, so database functionallity is no problem.

I like to shuffle over all of this songs to get some inspirations for the upcoming radio show...
But sometimes I want to play some particular song, which I can choose very fast due to the file organization.

So what is the Goal?
After playing this particular song, Rockbox HAVE TO continue the shuffled playback over all files on the system. It doesn't matter if it will continue the internal playlist (I already unterstand that Rockbox is very playlist-based system), or if Rockbox will create a new random playlist, or if there where eventually some repetition of some songs, or if there where a short stuck due to a buffer leak or what ever else
The only thing what I would prefere, is not to wait many seconds until Rockbox will load a list of all songs in one step of choosing my "favorite song". After I get my song, it can do what it like, as long as it will play the music and don't bring silence a longer time

On the original Firmware of the X5 it was a standard procedure, 'cause the whole playback system works on filesystem level, not primarily on playlist level.
So would there an very easy (maybe also blind, to handle it during riding a bicycle / driving car) way, to let Rockbox playback songs how i like to listen to them?

So, i hope you can help me

[evilnick]

I'm not entirely sure if this is what you're asking, but I think you want to be playing all the music on your player shuffled, and then occasionally add in one specific song, without there being a break in the playlist?

Try adding the specific song by using the Insert (or Queue) Next so that it is added to the next position in the playlist. This should be pretty much instant and after the specific song is played then the rest of the shuffled playlist will continue.

[netdive]

Yeah, i think this could solve my problem. Thanks to give me the hint to add songs as next, didn't saw this option :/

Now I have only to adapt to the handling of Rockbox and all will be fine

Thanks.

[solved]