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I'm a newbie: please share steps how to make a playlist (reading manual no help)
ThuanB:
That looks like the samo manual. It doesn't matter now, as I now can make more sense out of the manual's instructions. But I couldn't have done it without the very helpful start-up steps provided by nls.
Thanks.
Febs:
You've missed my point.
Why couldn't you understand that section of the manual in the first place? If you simply say that the manual is no help, but you don't explain why, then we cannot improve it. From what I can see, nls didn't tell you anything that wasn't already in the section of the manual that I've linked you to. So what would have been necessary for the manual to be useful to you in the first instance?
ThuanB:
I didn't understand that section of the manual in the 1st place because it doesn't not have the same detailed steps that nls gave me. Such detailed steps like:
1. browse to folder 1, press select on the first track, this clears the playlist and adds the files in this folder.
2. browse to folder 2, make a long press on select, go to "playlist" -> "insert" to insert the tracks in this folder.
If those steps were already included in the manual, I didn't see them. Not anywhere in the Playlist related areas. OTOH, I'd be gladly apologetic if you could point out to a specific page(s) where the manual shows similar steps/instructions.
Febs:
--- Quote from: ThuanB on April 15, 2007, 04:06:16 AM ---I didn't understand that section of the manual in the 1st place because it doesn't not have the same detailed steps that nls gave me. Such detailed steps like:
1. browse to folder 1, press select on the first track, this clears the playlist and adds the files in this folder.
--- End quote ---
Section 4.4.2:
"Whenever a song is selected from the File Browser with Select or Next, Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and start playback with the selected song.
Note: If you already have created a dynamic playlist, playing a new song will erase the current dynamic playlist and create a new one. If you want to add a song to the current playlist rather than erasing the current playlist, see the section below on how to add music to a playlist."
--- Quote ---2. browse to folder 2, make a long press on select, go to "playlist" -> "insert" to insert the tracks in this folder.
--- End quote ---
"Section 4.4.3. Adding Music to Dynamic Playlists.
The Playlist Submenu allows you to put tracks into a 'dynamic playlist'. If there is no music currently playing, Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track(s) into it. If there is music currently playing, Rockbox will put the selected track(s) into the current playlist."
--- Quote ---If those steps were already included in the manual, I didn't see them. Not anywhere in the Playlist related areas. OTOH, I'd be gladly apologetic if you could point out to a specific page(s) where the manual shows similar steps/instructions.
--- End quote ---
These two section basically mirror exactly what nls told you. I suppose that this section doesn't expressly tell you to make a long press on select, but it does tell you that these options are in the playlist submenu, and the chart that is just before this in section 4.3.1 tells you how to get there.
ThuanB:
So you're saying that the manual, as it is, doens't need to integrate the suggested steps that I learned from the very helpful nls.
I got what I need to know about Rockbox from nls and the manual. Thanks you very much. Case closed.
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