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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: meehawl on July 29, 2005, 07:32:51 pm

Title: SmartList Problem with Rio Forge
Post by: meehawl on July 29, 2005, 07:32:51 pm

I am having several issues with MC 11.0.309 and a Rio Forge, a flash player visible as USB Mass Storage.

I can generate, say, the "one hour random" SmartList. However, when I drag and drop it to the device, although the files get transferred correctly, the generated .m3u file on the device is rubbish, displaying only periods on each line.

Is this expected behaviour, or a bug?

Title: Re: SmartList Problem with Rio Forge
Post by: SteveG on August 01, 2005, 08:28:22 am

Did you let MC autodetect the Forge, or did you manually create an entry using 'Tools->Options->Handheld->Configure remote and fixed drives?

Title: Autodetect not so good
Post by: meehawl on August 02, 2005, 07:39:44 pm

Quote from: SteveG on August 01, 2005, 08:28:22 am

Did you let MC autodetect the Forge, or did you manually create an entry using 'Tools->Options->Handheld->Configure remote and fixed drives?

No. The autodetect option didn't enable me to customize the directory placement, so I hid those options and created device profiles in the "Configure" sheet.

Title: Rio - No SmartLists
Post by: meehawl on August 02, 2005, 07:42:07 pm

Quote from: LisaRCT on August 01, 2005, 08:43:01 am

Can you successfully accomplish this using the Rio Music Manager software (thus eliminating the possibility of a Rio issue)?

Well, the Rio doesn't support SmartLists (except for one of those random-selection shuffle-based-on-frequency synch options). Both MC and the Rio thing can create and drop .M3Us onto the device - there just seems to be a problem with MC generating an on-device .M3U from its SmartList.

Title: Re: SmartList Problem with Rio Forge
Post by: SteveG on August 03, 2005, 12:10:52 pm

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No. The autodetect option didn't enable me to customize the directory placement, so I hid those options and created device profiles in the "Configure" sheet.

By default the files should go into a 'Music' directory. Is that incorrect?

If you reset the devices and allow MC to detect the forge, do the m3u playlists get constructed correctly?

Title: Re: SmartList Problem with Rio Forge
Post by: meehawl on August 07, 2005, 05:48:30 pm

Quote from: SteveG on August 03, 2005, 12:10:52 pm

By default the files should go into a 'Music' directory. Is that incorrect?

If you reset the devices and allow MC to detect the forge, do the m3u playlists get constructed correctly?

The OOTB Rio manager wants to drop the files into a /Music directory, but MC was generating relative-path .M3U playlists that the Rio device didn't like parsing on startup. So I disabled the Music directory. All files, from both Rio and MC, get dropped into the root of the device. On startup, it checks its on-odevice database  of tracks and playlists and updates as required. The /Music directory does not seem to be a requirement.

I may try with the default setup again...