INTERACT FORUM

Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: womble on December 17, 2005, 08:34:09 pm

Title: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: womble on December 17, 2005, 08:34:09 pm

Hopefully there is an easy answer to this  ;D

I have my H340 syncing beautifully except that the playlists all have the drive letter pre-pended and the H340 wont recognise them. If I manually edit the playlists and remove the drive letter they work perfectly.

Is there some setting so MediaCentre 11.1.83 won't add the drive letter to a playlist when syncing?

Thanks
Russell

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: Dutch Peter on December 18, 2005, 02:42:45 am

Maybe you should check 'Files and Paths' in the advanced options in the Handheld section?

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: SteveG on December 19, 2005, 10:39:19 am

Thanks Dutch Peter,

Russell, what do you have the option for 'Playlists Path:' set to in 'File Paths' under Handheld options?

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: womble on December 27, 2005, 11:18:40 pm

Sorry for the late reply guys, been on holidays  :-[

Playlist paths has "Playlists\".
I dont understand why this has anything to do with prepending the drive letter each of the files in each playlist.

For example i get a playlist like this:
J:\Music\Artist\Album\01-xxxxx.ogg
J:\Music\Artist\Album\02-yyyyy.ogg

but the iRiver H3xx series doesn't like the drive letter "J:". IMHO quite rightly as when the unit is wandering around, it isn't drive "J:", that is specific to my machine.

So what it wants is the playlist to be like this:
\Music\Artist\Album\01-xxxxx.ogg
\Music\Artist\Album\02-yyyyy.ogg

Thanks
Russell

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: womble on February 25, 2006, 07:05:47 pm

Any news on this problem?

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: Matt on February 28, 2006, 10:43:13 am

The latest builds of MC 11.1 will always use relative paths when possible when putting a playlist on a device.

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: womble on March 01, 2006, 08:24:38 pm

Just tried 11.1.121 and yes it uses relative paths.

However the H340 doesn't like relative paths  :(

Matt, you said MC will always use relative paths when possible, what is the algorithm for that?

I have tried making the music path absolute i.e. \MUSIC\xxxx
To my mind that should trigger the use of an absolute path in the playlist.

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: Matt on March 02, 2006, 11:16:16 am

Tonight's build will add a setting to pick different playlist formats for drive-style devices.

It should make playlists for your device (and any similar device) work properly.

Title: Re: iRiver H3xx and syncing playlists
Post by: womble on March 03, 2006, 12:25:42 am

Matt,
   Thank you, I just tried .136 and it worked perfectly! :)

I am a very happy boy now!