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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: View Current Playlist

« Last post by chris_s on March 11, 2025, 08:40:48 AM »

I was referring to 'Add to Playlist...'. It should already support the scenarios you've described... that's why the Create Playlist option is pretty redundant, possibly with the exception of creating a playlist from all tracks on your device.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by iPodVT on March 11, 2025, 08:39:02 AM »

Updated and tried it just now - no Panic.  Thanks very much.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: View Current Playlist

« Last post by iPodVT on March 11, 2025, 08:29:35 AM »

I don't recall ever previously using Create Playlist, but now that I understand what it does and have tried it out I see its usefulness.  However, its current implementation seems too indirect, which makes it abstract and obscure.  Perhaps a different implementation to consider would be to put a Create Playlist item into the context menus within the File and Database Browsers.  The context menu for an entity within the File Browser would include a Create Playlist item which would yield a playlist that includes all track files within that File Browser entity.  Similarly, the context menu for an entity within the Database Browser would include a Create Playlist item which would yield a playlist that includes all track files within that Database Browser entity.  The context menu for the File item in the Main Menu would include a Create Playlist item which would yield a playlist that includes all track files on the device.  The context menu for the Database item in the Main Menu would include a Create Playlist item which would yield a playlist for all track files in the Database.  Implementing this would be a lot of work, but from a UI standpoint it seems more logical IMHO.  (Are you now sorry you asked? ;-)

• You can already create playlists from directories using the context menu (and need to select a directory first in any case, so not saving any steps)

Do you mean by using Playing Next… and then Save Current Playlist?

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: View Current Playlist

« Last post by chris_s on March 11, 2025, 01:35:47 AM »

That's good to hear.

I was actually wondering if it would make sense to get rid of the Create playlist option in that menu, or at least to simplify its behavior. If you or anyone else has input on that, too, it would be great to hear it. My current thoughts:

• No way to predict how it behaves without reading the manual, and you have to remember that it depends on the state of the File Browser
• You can already create playlists from directories using the context menu (and need to select a directory first in any case, so not saving any steps)
• Remaining functionality that may be of use is to create a playlist from all files on disk (since you can't select the root directory from the File Browser)

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by chris_s on March 11, 2025, 01:25:20 AM »

should be fixed in the upcoming build, thanks for reporting, iPodVT

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 08:13:38 PM »

I'm not sure why I thought it mattered that the current playlist was dynamic and not one that already existed in my Playlists Directory.  In any case, I just now repeated the same test but instead of playing an album from the database browser I started playing a playlist from my playlists directory.  When I went to Save Current Playlist and edited the directory name to one that doesn't exist I got the same panic.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 08:03:22 PM »

Okay, I created the new directory "/Rockbox Playlists2", started playing an album via the Database Browser, went to Save Current Directory, and edited the supplied path from "/Rockbox Playlists/Playlist 1" to "/Rockbox Playlists2/Playlist 1".  The playlist was successfully saved in "/Rockbox Playlists2".  I also checked to make sure that Rockbox hadn't changed my previously selected Playlists Directory from "/Rockbox Playlists" to "/Rockbox Playlists2", and that was unchanged.  So it seems that the panic I'm reporting is dependent on specifying a directory that doesn't exist.  Of course, since the full path is editable the user could specify a chain of non existent directories (possibly opening a doorway into another dimension...).

BTW - this afternoon I also got a panic doing the same things on an ipodvideo running a dev build from January.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 07:36:31 PM »

So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?

Hang on - I think I now understand what you are asking.  I'll try it again, editing the directory name to a directory that exists but is not my specified Playlists directory.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 07:16:44 PM »

So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?

I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but the only difference between the two scenarios is that in the first I accessed Save Current Directory via the WPS's context menus and in the second I accessed Save Current Directory via the context menu attached to the main menu's Playlists item.  Every other aspect was exactly the same between both attempts:  The current playlist was dynamic - derived from playing an album via the Database Browser and not associated with a previously saved playlist.  In both cases I edited the directory segment of the pathname exactly the same way to specify a directory that did not exist.  My Playlists directory is at "/Rockbox Playlists", Rockbox supplied the default path "/Rockbox Playlists/Playlist 1" in the virtual keyboard screen, and both times I edited the pathname to be "/Rockbox Playlists2/Playlist 1".  And both attempts caused a Panic.

Please let me know if I still haven't answered your question satisfactorily or if you have any other questions.

Thanks.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic

« Last post by Bilgus on March 10, 2025, 06:26:10 PM »

So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?