question about playlists

[cooltwou]

I did read the manual on the playlist but it was not in simple enough I could understand it & I a, running the Rockbox on a SanDisk Sansa Clip + 4GB & I can't figure out how to do the playlist at all how do I do it using the Rockbox program on my Clip +

[cooltwou]

I can't figure out how to make a playlist & I looked at the manual but it was not much help & I am trying to make the playlists on a SanDisk Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox on it & it never listed in simple terms on how to do the playlists on my player

[cooltwou]

can somebody please help me out if you don't mind

[Nephiel]

Here's one way to make a playlist from scratch on Rockbox:
1. Find any one of the tracks you want to put on the playlist (through the Files menu or the Database/Tagcache menu)
2. Select the track to start playing it
3. From the Now Playing screen, press and hold the center button to access the context menu.
4. From the context menu, select Playlist (which should be the first item)
5. From the Playlist menu, select Save Current Playlist
6. Enter a name to your playlist
7. Press and hold the center button when done. Your playlist is now saved in the Playlists directory on the root of the player.

[cooltwou]

OK but how do I make the name because all I could get it to delete nothing else & I never get it to accept the name either

[Nephiel]

That's the virtual keyboard. You navigate a cursor around it with the Play/Left/Right/Bottom buttons to select each character, then press the center button to write it. At the bottom is the line of text you're writing. If you bring the cursor to that line and press the center button, it will delete a character right before the cursor. To finish editing and accept the name shown there, press and hold the center button.

See the manual, section 4.1.3 (page 26) for more info.

[cooltwou]

I think I got that to work & how do you setup a playlist on a micro SD card

[cereal_killer]

7. Press and hold the center button when done. Your playlist is now saved in the Playlists directory on the root of the player.

Sorry, but on my sansa clip v2 running rockbox 3.13, the current playlist is saved in the parent directory of the track I listen to. I need to put /Playlists in front of the playlist name to have it saved in the catalog.

[cooltwou]

that doesn't tell me why it said saved a playlist for the micro SD card but I don't see it any where

[Nephiel]

7. Press and hold the center button when done. Your playlist is now saved in the Playlists directory on the root of the player.

Sorry, but on my sansa clip v2 running rockbox 3.13, the current playlist is saved in the parent directory of the track I listen to. I need to put /Playlists in front of the playlist name to have it saved in the catalog.

You're right. When writing the name of the playlist, you can also modify the path to save it in /Playlists or in /<microSD1>/Playlists.

It might be easier to save the playlist in the default path (the parent directory of the selected track) and then cut the m3u8 file and past it wherever you want, using the Files browser.

[cooltwou]

7. Press and hold the center button when done. Your playlist is now saved in the Playlists directory on the root of the player.

Sorry, but on my sansa clip v2 running rockbox 3.13, the current playlist is saved in the parent directory of the track I listen to. I need to put /Playlists in front of the playlist name to have it saved in the catalog.

You're right. When writing the name of the playlist, you can also modify the path to save it in /Playlists or in /<microSD1>/Playlists.

It might be easier to save the playlist in the default path (the parent directory of the selected track) and then cut the m3u8 file and past it wherever you want, using the Files browser.

I don't know how to cut the m3u8 file & paste it wherever you want, using the Files Browser

[cooltwou]

I have another question is there to make a playlist that has all your music on the player & the micro SD card all together

[Nephiel]

To move (cut & paste) a file, navigate to it from Main menu -> Files, hold the center button and select Cut. Then navigate to the folder you want to move it to, hold center and select Paste.

To make a playlist of all the music on both drives, you could first create one with all the music on the card, then add to it all the music on the player.

[cooltwou]

well it said it made one for the card but I never seen it & I took the files of the micro SD card & added to the playlist I had made for the files on the player & I keep getting a root error what would cause that

[Serenity]

If you don't mind managing your playlists on your PC, I'd suggest Foobar2000 as an all around good solution.

I have the Portable version of Foobar2000 installed on my Rockbox player in its own directory so I can run it from any computer.  Foobar will catalogue all the music on your Sansa. You can build playlists by drag-and-drop and save them wherever you like on the Sansa.

I find building playlists from scratch annoying on the Clip series due to the tiny screen.  Editing playlists is a little easier.