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Frankenpod:

--- Quote from: ravital on November 04, 2015, 08:54:12 PM ---Well, I'm going to sound like a liar, but tonight it's behaving as it should (I think):

Main->Playlist catalog->select a playlist->select any track-> and it begins to play, and in Now Playing I can skip back and forth to previous/next track.

Honestly, it was previously behaving as I described in the OP.

Thank you both in any case.

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Heh, I don't think you'd have any reason to lie about something like that!
Did you reboot in the meantime?  Maybe that was all it needed?

ravital:
Thanks, Frankenpod,

By "lying" I meant I might have been inaccurate in my description earlier.

Anyway, I found a new behavior -- Some playlists load just fine, as described in the manual, and some exhibit the problem I described earlier.

I'm on a Linux (Kubuntu) system, the playlist is written by EasyTag, which should not be a problem. I order my tracks under one directory for each album. So rather than experiment to find the best way to let EasyTag write the paths in the playlist correctly, I just let it use the absolute path and edit the playlist in UltraEdit (text editor) to remove the /home/user/ and so on so that the directory is at the root, where Rockbox expects to find it.

I don't know that this step is what's causing the problem, but rather than spend an eternity trying to troubleshoot this, the solution is simple. I don't ask much of my playlists, just that they play the tracks in the order they appear in the album. So at this point, if a playlist misbehaves and shows the same problem as before on the iPod, I simply delete it, go to the album's directory under "Files" and select "Playlist Catalog" then "Add to new playlist" and let Robckbox write the plalyst however it wants. Easy enough to tell them apart, since Rockbox writes them as .m3u8 and I (EasyTag) write them as .m3u. That's more than good enough for me.

Thanks for the input, everyone, Cheers  :)

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