"resume playback" suddenly starts at beginning of playlist instead of whre I was

[fredex]

In the last few days my Sansa Fuze (Rockbox 3.13) has changed behavior. used to be when I turned it off, when I came back to listen (perhaps days) later, selecting "resume playback" from the main menu would pick up where it was when I shut it down. But now, suddenly, it always starts playing at the beginning of the first file in the playlist I was playing.

Having spent an hour or more digging in the manual and playing with settings, I cannot make it work the way it did before.

I'd welcome suggestions on how to resolve this, thanks!

[[Saint]]

Post /.rockbox/config.cfg for us to review.


[Saint]

[Lebon14]

I had kind of the same issue, where rockbox would always start from the same file in the playlist even if I went and change track and turn off the DAP and turn it back on, it would always start from the same file. I fixed it by resetting the settings to "Resume Playback" in Settings -> General Settings -> Startup/Shutdown -> Resume Playback, even if it was already set to that.

I believe the problem happens when you add new tracks to the player and turn it back on, it screws itself over, even if the playlist was updated.

EDIT

Never mind, it did not fix it.

Chose a random song in the playlist called "Raging River". Fast forwarded a bit into the song and powered off my Fuze. Immediately powered it on again to find out that it started on a song called "Eagleheart" which is much farther in the playlist. I'm seriously considering downgrading to 3.9 where I didn't have this issue.

EDIT 2

Sure enough. I downgraded to 3.9 and there we go! The behavior I want!

[saratoga]

I just tried this several times in the current build using both the file browser and the database and everything worked as expected, so if it was present in 3.13, its apparently been fixed since then.

[fredex]

this problem seems to be intermittent... sometimes it goes to the right place when I resume playing, sometimes it doesn't. but here's t he config file you [saint] asked for...

# .cfg file created by rockbox 3.13 - http://www.rockbox.org

volume: -15
backlight timeout plugged: 15
invert: on
flip display: on
selector type: bar (inverse)
statusbar: off
backlight filters first keypress: on
scroll delay: 600
bidir limit: 75
foreground color: 000000
background color: FFFFFF
rec mic gain: 21
beep: weak
rewind duration on pause: 10
font: /.rockbox/fonts/20-Profont-basil.fnt
wps: /.rockbox/wps/BIG-fuze.wps
backdrop: -
button light timeout: 8
resume rewind: 10

[fredex]

Not solved, but I have a little more news:

Since the Fuze was misbehaving anyway (phone jack has become very intermittent) I bought a new ClipZip (and installed RockBox). The bad news is that the problem in restarting a playlist after a power off still occurs, intermittently.

What I didn't say was that I've got a 32-gig card in the micro-sd slot, and it's fairly full. I've been reading lately that there are some limitations on how many files can be cataloged in the database, so I wonder if somehow something has caused this playlist to suddenly fall into the category of files that no longer work.

I dunno, but anyone got any more thoughts?

thanks!

[[Saint]]

There are indeed a few limits in Rockbox, but most people will find them sufficient I would think.

By default, Max Entries in File Browser is set to 1,000 (but this is per-directory, and does not include sub-directories), as the name suggests this only affects the File Browser, and there is also Max Playlist Size which is set to 10,000 entries by default.

The 1,000 files per directory default is more than generous for most people's use case, unless you are one of those people that keeps literally thousands of files in a single directory...but even if you are this limit can be raised. 10,000 tracks per playlist may not be enough for everyone if they are wanting to add all their media to a single giant playlist, but this limit can easily be increased as well.


[Saint]

[fredex]

Saint, thanks for the reply.

So, I'll clarify a bit. I keep each album/book/thing in its own subdirectory. In the case of the specific playlist I'm having trouble with, it contains 30 mp3 files, all in the same subdir with nothing else at all except a copy of the .m3u file.

that playlist has been on the SD card for a year or two, and has been listened to multiple times (at least a half-dozen) without trouble, til recently.

probably the biggest playlists on the player is one on the SD card of around 300 files (complete Bach organ music), and one (on the old Fuze, not yet moved to the ClipZip) of music files, which is 183 files (about 7 gigs). Otherwise

So far, I've had this trouble ONLY with that one playlist.

So, I shouldn't be encountering any of those limits.

Having been reading the RockBox manual, it's still not clear to me how the restart-after-power-off "resume playback" actually is implemented. I think I saw something about it's stored as a temporary bookmark, rather than as some attribute in the database. Can you enlighten me on that?

Thanks for your attention.

Fred

[saratoga]

I just tried resuming a playlist on the Clip Zip at random positions a number of times, and could not get it to fail.  I'm using today's build.   Which build are you seeing this problem in?

[fredex]

latest release, which is, as far as I remember 3.13. (the same release was in use on both the players where I had this problem.)

so far I've seen this only on a single playlist, but I haven't done an exhaustive study.

[saratoga]

latest release, which is, as far as I remember 3.13. (the same release was in use on both the players where I had this problem.)

What happens if you try today's build?

[fredex]

that would be the clip zip build on build.rockbox.org?

and is there any special technique to revert to 3.13, should I want/need to?

[saratoga]

that would be the clip zip build on build.rockbox.org?

Yes, or you can use rockbox utility to update.

and is there any special technique to revert to 3.13, should I want/need to?

Just download that build, or use rockbox utility to install 3.13.  Equivalently, you can copy the build off your player and keep it on your PC if you don't want to download it again.

[fredex]

OK, lemme try it. I'll get back to you.

[fredex]

Well, no good news. I get the same result.