How can I nest playlists on Rockbox?

[chrisjj]

I've seen it claimed possible:

'y'know you can nest playlists, right?'

but I find no way to do it.

E.g. <playlist> > Playlist Catalogue > Add to New Playlist fail to add the playlist to the new playlist. Instead it merely copies the contents.

[saratoga]

I don't know if I understand the question.  What are you expecting to happen? 

[chrisjj]

I expect to get the existing playlist nested in the new one.

Do you know any way to nest playlists?

[saratoga]

What should happen when a playlist is nested?

[chrisjj]

If anyone has an answer to the question, it would be great to hear.

[fredex]

I'm not the OP, but what I think he is requesting is:

playlist A may contain filenames of music to play, and/or it may contain name of another playlist (B) to open and play. possibly playlist B could contain name of playlist C to open and play.

I've often wished for this when putting things that have multiple groups of files (large music compositions, a series of audiobooks). E.g., each audiobook would have its own playlist, each of which could be played individually, or a playlist for the whole series, which just invokes each individual book's playlist to make it easy to hear the whole series.

[chrisjj]

I use nested playlists to organise my tracks in categories. E.g. each of the Vals objects here:



is a playlist representing a level 1 category, containing zero tracks but about a dozen sub-playlists each representing a level 2 category and referencing tracks from various albums.

This is invaluable. Nested playlists are ideal for this and I've seen no other solution on any player.

EDIT: I use nested playlists in MediaMonkey and JRiver Media Centre. I've not found how to nest playlists in Rockbox.