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pmennen:
Sorry to ask since I'm sure this must have been asked before, but my question is so simple and general that I could not figure out out to search for the answer.

I'm using the Sansa Clip Zip with a fairly recent Rockbox version (cdaef6f -121214). I see that many fancy things are possible with playlists, but my desires are quite primitive. I just want to create a playlist containing all the music on my player. I know this is possible, because on page 35 of the manual it says:

"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."

Since this is EXACTLY what I want to do, of course I went to the main menu to look for the playlists menu expecting to find the "create playlist" command in there. My problem however is that I do not have a playlists menu in the main menu. My main menu looks just like figure 5.1 on page 39 which has a "Playlist Catalog" menu, but not simply a "Playlist" menu. Of course I tried the Playlist Catalog menu, but clearly this is not the same thing because I don't see a "create playlist" command there. (I just get a brief "No files" message).

This is weird, because the manual seems to go thru each main menu item in turn eventually getting to the "Playlists" menu in section 5.10 at the bottom of page 44. Right below that it again lists the "Create Playlist" command that I so desperately need but cannot find.

It also mentions that you can create a play list from the WPS context menu or from the File/Folder context menu. I would prefer not to do it that way since it seems more complicated than I need, but nonetheless I tried that out of desperation. But again I do not see the create playlist command from either of those context menus either!

What is going on? Obviously I'm missing some basic idea that has gotten me so hopelessly out of sync with the manual.

Even if I can't figure out what the manual is trying to tell me, I would be happy if I could find some sure fire way to just load up player with a few dozen folders and have it play them in order. (Even any order would be fine!!!)

Thanks for any help you can offer.
~Paul

JdGordon:
The manual is (waaay) out of date here.. hold down select/ok/middle button (whetaver it is on the clip) so you get to the context menu on the "playlist catalogue" item and the "create playlist" option is there

pmennen:
Ok ... wow. It now works following your instructions. But wait ... isn't this "create playlist" thing pretty much essential. Shouldn't it appear in the main menu so it could be discovered without a manual? Maybe I could have figured this out if I didn't have the manual ... but long press on playlist catalogue would certainly not be an easy guess. And with the manual, I had no chance. (Perhaps this manual should be deleted, as it may be doing more harm than good.) Don't thousands of people learn how to use this? This manual is dated yesterday ... but perhaps there is a more up to date manual that people are looking at? Otherwise I'm still confused about how people use this.

~Paul

saratoga:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on May 15, 2014, 08:36:07 AM ---The manual is (waaay) out of date here.. hold down select/ok/middle button (whetaver it is on the clip) so you get to the context menu on the "playlist catalogue" item and the "create playlist" option is there

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Can you post an updated text?  I don't know how the playlist catalog is supposed to work, otherwise I would do it.

[Saint]:
I think there's only one human on the face of the earth who knows how this works.

It got through with no documentation despite radical changes to functionality.


[Saint]

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