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Playlist Compatibility between Rockbox & iTunes (iPod)
blueskip:
Avoiding my bad urge to be a total smartbutt, I have playlists that I used ItunesExport to generate as .m3u and I put them into the playlist folder. Â However when I load them I get No File (root) (root)
The site has TONS of information but it is extremely hard to navigate and find what I need. Â
I've been fooling with MediaMonkey to create playlists but it really isn't what I would prefer because all of my previous playlists were created with itunes. Â I'm no fan of itunes but I don't want so sit for a week recreating playlists.
If anyone has a tutorial I would be MOST MOST MOST appreciative. Â Rockbox is awesome if it's in a usable state. Â My configuration unfortunately is not.
I listen to jazz at work because it's peaceful and non-distracting, and I listen to numerous other playlists everywhere else depending on my mood.
EDIT: (Soap merged double post)
Ok here's a start. You could point me into the direction of how to make a playlist that actually works. So far after hours of goofing around I cannot get rockbox to make a playlist that works. If I use MediaMonkey to make a m3u list for music that is already on the ipod, it doesn't play. I can't figure out how to make one using the rockbox interface either.
Rockbox obviously reads the itunes songs but is not playing my playlist. If I view the playlist using "View Current Playlist", I get a listing of the songs with (ERR) in front of each one.
I don't have a clue what the problem is and I'm seriously tired of looking for the answer. I needed this to work by .... uhhh...NOW and I have a presentation to make for work that I should have started hours ago. So I really don't have time to be fooling with this on and on.
So...That's why I think tutorials are not a bad idea to sum it up.
bascule:
Open up your playlist in a text editor (or Rockbox's own Viewer) and take a look.
An .m3u/.m3u8 playlist should just be a list of filepaths like this:
--- Code: ---/music/Kylie Minogue-Fever/03-Can't Get You Out Of My Head.MP3
/music/Dido-Life For Rent/01-White Flag.ogg
/music/KT Tunstall-Eye To The Telescope/05-Miniature Disasters.ogg
--- End code ---
I suspect yours does not look like that.
If ITunesExport purports to create a valid .m3u8 then let's a least have a look at what the file actually contains and we will work from there.
...and it's a good job you refrained from being a smartbutt as such an attitude gets quite a short shrift around here. There are plenty of people willing to help, but only if you have attempted to find out the answer first. As Febs implied, the manual contains all the information you need about Rockbox's handling and saving of playlists, but we do not support Apple's (or anyone else's) non-standard ways of doing things:
Link to Playlists in the Manual
AlexP:
Please read the posting guidelines and do not double post.
Are you transferring music with itunes?
If so, itunes changes all the filenames and puts files in random directories when you transfer music, making playlists a little tricky. Are you using the database to access your music?
blueskip:
.m3u not .m3u8 Neither itunesexport nor MediaMonkey create .m3u8 files.
--- Quote ---F:\Althea Rene - In The Moment (2006) - Jazz By FEFE2003\04 - More Than You Know.mp3
F:\Althea Rene - In The Moment (2006) - Jazz By FEFE2003\09 - And She Said.mp3
--- End quote ---
This is from one of the generated playlists.
So yes they look exactly like that however the location is not correct. The music is not on the "F:" drive it shows it's on the ipod.
So what am I doing wrong? I'm obviously creating a playlist for MediaMonkey that is pointing to the wrong drive. How do I fix it?
AlexP:
I'm afraid that is a question for the mediamonkey developers. We can't be expected to support all of the hundreds of applications that can make m3u playlists.
You also haven't answered my question on how you transferred the music.
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