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alexweissman:
Hey guys,

I just did a fresh install of Rockbox (dev version ad5e5c4-151117) on my Sansa Clip+ (yes, the one that has sadly been discontinued).

My current config file is as follows:


--- Code: ---# .cfg file created by rockbox ad5e5c4-151117 - http://www.rockbox.org

volume: -24
start directory: /<microSD1>/
playlist viewer track display: full path
database scan paths: /<microSD1>
dircache: off
tagcache_autoupdate: on
playlist catalog directory: /<microSD1>/Playlists

--- End code ---

As you can see, I have an addon memory card, with the device name <microSD1>.  The file structure is set up as such:


--- Code: ---<microSD1>
  |-- Music
  |-- Playlists

--- End code ---

My "Playlists" directory contains .m3u playlists that I have generated and copied to the device with MediaMonkey.  An example playlist looks like:


--- Code: ---I:\Music\Ministry of Sound - Ministry Of Sound Chillout Sessions XV\01 Missy Higgins - Everyone's Waiting.mp3
I:\Music\Ministry of Sound - Ministry Of Sound Chillout Sessions XV\02 Gotye - Eyes Wide Open (Yeasayer Remix).mp3
I:\Music\Ministry of Sound - Ministry Of Sound Chillout Sessions XV\03 Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments.mp3
I:\Music\Ministry of Sound - Ministry Of Sound Chillout Sessions XV\04 Major Lazer Feat. Amber Coffman - Get Free.mp3
I:\Music\Ministry of Sound - Ministry Of Sound Chillout Sessions XV\05 Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You.mp3

--- End code ---

On the Clip+, I am able to open the playlist catalogue and view the tracks for a playlist:



As you can see, it is correctly displaying the paths for the files with the drive letters removed.  However, when I try to actually play the tracks from the playlist, I get some brief error message (too quick for me to read anything other than "ERR"), then it skips all the tracks and exits back to the main menu.  I presume that it isn't finding the files as listed in the playlist.

When I manually change some entries in the playlist, replacing the drive letter with <microSD1>, then Rockbox is able to successfully play the tracks.  But, this was definitely not necessary before I did the fresh install.  Is there some setting I am missing, that tells Rockbox to start looking in <microSD1> for the relative paths to files in a playlist?

saratoga:

--- Quote from: alexweissman on December 01, 2015, 07:52:23 PM ---  But, this was definitely not necessary before I did the fresh install.  Is there some setting I am missing, that tells Rockbox to start looking in <microSD1> for the relative paths to files in a playlist?

--- End quote ---

There is no setting to do that.  The default behavior is that if you give the player an ambiguous path like I:\, it assumes that you are referring to the same disk as you saved the playlist on.  If you saved the playlist to a different disk than the one you want to access, you'll have to explicitly put that into the playlist file. 

alexweissman:
Well, the playlist is indeed on the same disk as the mp3 files.  So, I'm not sure what is going on here.

alexweissman:
Is there a way I can capture that error message that is flashing when I try to play the file?  Maybe that will shed some light on the problem.

saratoga:
Post the exact contents of an M3U files that does work. 

The error message just says that the path in the M3U is wrong, which we already know.

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