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Playing ALL Music (Sansa Clip Zip)

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bbildman:
Been through the manual and now I am asking how do I play ALL the music using Rockbox for the Sansa Clip Zip.

The manual says this::

"By using the Main Menu
To create a playlist containing all music on your player, you can use the Create
Playlist command in the Playlists menu found in the Main Menu. The created
playlist will be named root.m3u8 and saved in the root of your player’s disk."

On the Rockbox firmware for the Zip, there is no "Playlists" Menu found in the Main Menu, only a Playlist Catalogue Menu. So, how do I enable this so that ALL the music is included both from the Zip memory as well as the Microdisk I have installed.

Also is there a way to sort the ALL music playlist (if I can figure out how to do it) in an order other than how it is occurring on the Sansa, for instance by Directory, or Artist name, such that the resulting playlist is ordered and saved that way, thanks for any help.

saratoga:
I think playlist catalogue was renamed to playlists, so probably you are using a newer manual with an older version of Rockbox.

For what its worth if you want to sort things by tags I think you need to use the database. If you select all artists in the database does it do what you want?

bbildman:
I'm using the latest Rockbox, 3.13.

Will try what you said re: sorting the database, but what I want sorted is the "ALL" playlist, rather than the database.

Again, from the LATEST Manual for the ZIP dated March 16th, this is what I read::

"By using the Main Menu
To create a playlist containing all music on your player, you can use the Create
Playlist command in the Playlists menu found in the Main Menu. The created
playlist will be named root.m3u8 and saved in the root of your player’s disk."

There is NO Playlists menu on the main menu.

Thanks

saratoga:
3.13 is the latest stable build but its over a year old. If you download the manual for Rockbox as it is today some things will have changed.  You can find the the 3.13 version of the manual here:

http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.13/

bbildman:
I have the latest dev release installed on the zip, I thought THAT firmware ought to mimic the current manual, but it does not.

My original questions stands, how do I make a playlist that includes all the songs on my clip zip, though the instructions talk about the Playlist menu that doesn't exist on my main menu.

I WILL go back and check out the 3.13 Rockbox pdf file, thanks

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