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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: meehawl on September 30, 2005, 05:04:10 pm

Title: Synch Problem - Playlists Not Being Placed In Correct Directories
Post by: meehawl on September 30, 2005, 05:04:10 pm

This is really bugging me. I am using 3.0.316.

The Archos is visible as a standard external USB drive, E:, and its volume name is "JUKEBOX".

MC did not detect it automatically, I defined it within the "Configure Handheld" as:

Path to Detect:
E:\Music

Display Name:
Archos

Default Playlist Directory:
\!PlayLists

Playlist Filepath:
.\Music

All directories are pre-existing on the external drive.

A synch of an existing playlist copies the tracks, as expected, as subdirectories named \Music\[SUBDIRECTORY].

However, MC dumps the playlist into the root of the E:\Music directory.

In addition, the playlist entries start with a repeated name:
.\Music\Music\[SUBDIRECTORIES...]

Now, Rockbox (the OS installed on the Archos) is smart enough to parse the repeated Music\Music entries and find the files indicated, but what I want is the Playlist files to be deposited into the E:\Music\!PlayLists directory.

What's really bugging me is that I used this exact setup about an hour ago using 3.0.309, as a test, and that time, MC correctly deposited the playlists into the !PlayLists directory. I was very pleased.

Then it stopped placing them correctly working on a subsequent synch. I tried upgrading to 3.0.316 but this behaviour is unchanged.

This has to be a bug with MC, right? Nothing in the configuration of the external drive, the host PC's library, or Windows was changed.

Title: Re: Synch Problem - Playlists Not Being Placed In Correct Directories
Post by: meehawl on October 18, 2005, 06:58:37 pm

So there's no thoughts on this problem?

Additionally, I note that all of the PlayLists seem to be dumped into a single flat directory. That is, the hierarchical, nested format of the Playlist groups within MC is lost . Is this by design?

Title: Re: Synch Problem - Playlists Not Being Placed In Correct Directories
Post by: Matt on October 18, 2005, 07:40:45 pm

Quote from: meehawl on October 18, 2005, 06:58:37 pm

So there's no thoughts on this problem?

Additionally, I note that all of the PlayLists seem to be dumped into a single flat directory. That is, the hierarchical, nested format of the Playlist groups within MC is lost . Is this by design?

You may want to try a few other playlist directory configuration options. (dot before path or not, different path name, etc.)  We'll also take a look.

As a note, playlists will always be stored as a flat list on the device.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Synch Problem - Playlists Not Being Placed In Correct Directories
Post by: SteveG on October 19, 2005, 10:05:24 am

This is a confirmed bug. We will address and improve this in 11.1.

Thanks.

Steve

Title: Re: Synch Problem - Playlists Not Being Placed In Correct Directories
Post by: meehawl on October 20, 2005, 09:40:13 am

Quote from: SteveG on October 19, 2005, 10:05:24 am

This is a confirmed bug. We will address and improve this in 11.1.

Thanks. I was thinking it seemed vaguely unpredictable. On a couple of synchs the Playlists were placed in the correct subdir. Then, on a later one, MC reverted to placing them in the incorrect dir. Odd. For me, dragging and dropping the lists manually is no big deal, but *definitely* not wife-friendly.