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painless-shadow:
Seems I have missed something:
I was playing a couple of albums that didn't have id3 tagging...
Silly me, I didn't realize that the 'next' feature reads only id3 info. The WPS showed me the name of the songs (which were actually the names of the files), so I assumed the 'next' feature didn't work, since it didn't show any info.

So now I wish that someone will make 'next' to read the name of the file, in case no id3 info is present. Is that possible?

Thanks for answering.

PaulPosition:
It shouldn't be too hard to do, if you're willing to edit the .wps file yourself.

You'd need to find something that looks like :

--- Code: ---%?Ia
--- End code ---
(note the capitalization of the letter I.. %ia is artist, %Ia is next artist)

and change that to :

--- Code: ---%?Ia
--- End code ---

That will take care of the artist, at least if you use a /artist/album/songs directory structure. (d2/D2 is second directory from the right, so artist).

Then if you also find ...:

--- Code: ---%?It
--- End code ---

You'll need to change it to :

--- Code: ---%?It
--- End code ---
Which will show the next songs' filename.

With those, you'll have information from tags if those are available, and if not, they'll get replaced with filename and second-dir-from-end-of-file-path.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CustomWPS will have any information you need to customize it to your liking.

Good luck

Genre9mp3:

--- Quote from: painless-shadow on January 13, 2007, 03:35:04 PM ---So now I wish that someone will make 'next' to read the name of the file, in case no id3 info is present. Is that possible?
--- End quote ---

This is already implemented in many wps. For instance, iCatcher which is bundled in the builds does this. But as PaulPosition mentioned you can easily edit your favorite wps file to do this.

painless-shadow:
Thanks, I did :)

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