play away

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@scorche

3.i converted the playlist to m3u using an app called songlist to m3u

I'm thinking that this is somehow the problem, but until my previous questions get answered, I'm still in the dark!

[scorche]

I noticed as soon as I hit post...

So much for my 'Rockbox Expert' badge  

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LOL

[Llorean]

Here's my guess on the problem: Many people create a playlist pointing to the songs on their computer. Since he's using iTunes to create the playlist, my wager is the playlist is indexing the songs on his computer, and points to actual filenames, while the files on his iPod have been synced with iTunes and have the crazily renamed filenames.

My suggestion would be to either create the playlists in Rockbox, or not use iTunes to sync your songs, and make sure to create the playlists pointing to the copies of the songs on the player, not on the computer. (Assuming my guess here is correct.)

[captainfearless]

get a room guys!
okay i'm trying my best here!
the playlist appears on rb as warm up tunes.m3u,so that looks ok
sorry i thought i had answered the drive letter question ,by saying that there are no letter prefixes showing in the text editor
the text editor says these are aac audio files!?
really this is too complicated,would i be better off just creating the playlist on the pod with rb,
what is the best way to create a playlist ,how would you guys do it?

[Llorean]

Two questions:

1) Did you use iTunes to sync the songs.

2) Do the songs look like they point to AAC files with actual names, or four-letter names?

[captainfearless]

i think you nailed it llorean,and by the way i understood your explanation very clearly straight away ,thanks for that!
i think i'll just do it on rockbox,i'm out of time and brain power!
thanks for trying to help eaverybody

[Febs]

If you want further help, I suggest that you open up the playlist file in a text editor and cut and paste the contents into a post here so that we can see exactly what the playlist file looks like.

Edit:  I merged your two playlist related threads.  One thread per topic please.