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Shuffle Play of ALL files (iRiver iHP140)

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MickeyKnox:
Hi

I found this firmware yesterday and think it's great, but I have ONE question.
First of all ... I don't play any playlists (actually I don't like them) - I just want my player to play just one of the songs on it.
Second ... I did create the following directory order -> iRiver_root: Artist/Album (I don't have any single tracks, just albums)
So, what I want is simple - in shuffle mode, the player (iRiver iHP140) should take tracks from ALL directories not just from the current one. Is that possible and when ... HOW? I haven't found  it yet and I think I looked in EVERY single option menu.
Can someone help me please?

P.S.: DOOM on my iRiver ... hahaha, that's funny :)

romero:
I was just wondering the exact same thing.

The way I've found to do it is this:

In the General Settings/File View/Show Files/ menu, select "ID3 Database".

First you should have all your files tagged if you want to know what anything is (but it will play the untagged files, just not tell you what they are).

You can then browse by artist, album, track, or actually many of the ID3 tag fields (which is pretty cool).
If you browse by track, you'll then see a list of all the files in your database. Playing with shuffle turned on will then play all these tracks randomly.

I'm totally new to this myself as well, but I think generating your database (initializing the tag cache?) may be the first trick if you haven't done that. (and updating it whenever you add stuff to the device)

I hope that helps...

Damion

AlexP:
In the options turn recursivly insert directories on, then create a playlist of all the files on your player by holding down navi in the root, then selecting playlist --> create playlist.

Turn shuffle on, play the root playlist, and voila.

MickeyKnox:
Thanks Mr. ZOMBIE (hahaha, i love your movies :) )
I will check that later if it works

Bambi: The thing is, I don't like playlists, you know? And I change the albums on my player very often and I don't want to recreate a Playlist each time I changed something - but when that's the only way ... I will see ... maybe the guys here change that in a later version

AlexP:
Either way something will have to update when you change albums, be it the root playlist or the tagcache database (although I think that'll do it automatically).

The problem you might run into is that the entire design philosophy of rockbox is based around playlists.  Even when you select a file/folder/whatever to play, rockbox creates a playlist.  The way I said is the way to do it without tagcache (which personally I don't like).

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