First time Rockbox user - A couple questions

[Yutrzenika]

I've had a Sansa Clip Zip for awhile now, and only just recently decided to get Rockbox. So far I'm loving it, however I have two issues.

First, how do I create playlists? With the default firmware for the Clip Zip, all I had to do was simply highlight a song, hold the select button, and presto, it's instantly added to the "Go List". Prior to the installation of Rockbox, I had heard that managing playlists was very easy, but my experience has been anything but easy so far. I went into the Playlist Catalog, tried to create a new playlist, and there was no playlist present after trying to do so, I read the manual and tried the various methods to create a playlist. I eventually did find a playlist I made in the root of the the device, but was  unable to add more songs to it. I also read online that you can create playlists for it right on your computer, but that it basically involves you making a file folder and manually inputting file paths, which seems very inefficient.

tl;dr: how can I EASILY make playlists?

Second, a bunch of my music is "Untagged". What does this mean? I got MP3Tag, but don't really have any idea as to what I'm doing with it. I don't know what needs to be changed.

[[Saint]]

OK, first things first...

Welcome to our, and now your, community!

With that out of the way, I'm going to direct you to, and suggest you read through, our fine manual for the SanDisk Sansa Clip Zip.

You might want to pay particular attention to the section 4.4  Working with Playlists.

Regarding "untagged" media, what this means is that your audio has no, or invalid, ID3v{1|2} metadata tags. These ID3 frames are used to carry information such as Album, Artist, Disc Number, Genre, Track Number, Year, embedded album art (cover, CD image, booklet, etc), and so on and so forth. The Rockbox Database is pretty much entirely useless without correct/intact metadata, so you might find it more suitable to use the File Browser instead of you're unwilling or unable to fix your audio metadata.

As a side note, MP3Tag is probably not the tool you want to be using here, as it relies on you entering the tag values and provides zero automation. I highly recommend MusicBrainz Picard instead, as it can scan your tracks by file name, by existing partial metadata, or by audio fingerprinting from the audio stream itself.

Please not that if you use either MP3Tag or MusicBrainz Picard, you should BACK UP YOUR MEDIA BEFORE DOING ANYTHING, as it is very easy to make a mistake that will be exceedingly difficult and/or tedious to correct.


[Saint]