I’ve seen many requests in other threads for folder browsing and playing. I too would like that feature, partly because I’m already used to it (my previous crappy player didn’t support playlists :stuck_out_tongue: ).
While I can’t make the Clip browse its folders, I wrote a Python script that automatically creates playlists based on the directory structure of the Music folder. It turned out to be rather nice and I’m quite happy with it.
I don’t know if there’s a tool or media player that can easily do this already. Would anyone be interested in such a program? It should be fairly easy for me to write a little Windows program (since not many of you might have Python installed).
Here are the links to the program and its source code (C++, VS2008). They will expire in 1 week, but I’ll try to put up a little page somewhere by then.
I’m curious to know how many folders deep (from the root menu), can the Sansa read? Any sansa-gurus <ahem!> would care to chime in on this?? Or is there already a thread somewhere that someone can point me too?
@webspin_r6 wrote:
I’m curious to know how many folders deep (from the root menu), can the Sansa read?
Well, the filesystem is FAT32, so the only limitation is that the total path size (letters and slashes in “X:\folder1\folder2.…” ) must be less than 260. In fact I just created a long sequence of subfolders like this: F:\1\2\3\4.…\83 (83 levels deep). Navigating past 15 or so level gets too slow in Explorer though. I managed to copy a song down to 25 levels, made a playlist out of it and it worked without exploding… :stuck_out_tongue:
Thanks Elias, it’s a great tool. Works fine for me.
An improvement I would love to have is the possibilty to include the parent folder’s name of the current folder in the playlist name. This would allowed to have, for example, Album and Artist in the playlist title.
I don’t know anything in Python. So if you could implement that option, I would be very grateful.
An improvement I would love to have is the possibilty to include the parent folder’s name of the current folder in the playlist name. This would allowed to have, for example, Album and Artist in the playlist title.
Thanks, that’s a nice idea. Will be added soon.
I’ll just wait for a while, in case there are more suggestions, so that I can add them all together.
Then I have another one : I noticed that tracks are sorted alphabetically in the playlist. It would be nice to have an option to sort them by ID3 track number, for example, for those who don’t have the track number at the beginning of their filenames. I don’t know if it can be implemented easily.
It would be nice to have an option to sort them by ID3 track number, for example, for those who don’t have the track number at the beginning of their filenames. I don’t know if it can be implemented easily.
Yes, that would be very useful. There are some open-source ID3 tag libraries I could use. It might take a bit longer though…
I) it can`t use international names like “áñÉíÓúÑ.mp3” It’s simply empty in the playlist.
II) some tracks are not in order. Example:
#EXTM3U #GENERATOR:AutoM3U
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\03 Still in the high school.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\07 Forest for the trees.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\01 Code of the road.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\02 City streets.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\04 Take me home.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\05 Let’s get undressed.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\06 King of magazines.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\08 Your tears my smile.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\09 Something better.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\10 Ravenous.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\11 Never too loud.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\12 You ruin the day.mp3
Danko Jones\Never Too Loud\13 Sugar high.mp3
looking foward to the fix with the id3 tag tracks as all of the playlists it created are out of order but awsome job eliasf keep it up
*note
also the ability to add a prefix to the playlist for example lets say you want each playlist to be named 00 - [album].m3u that would be awsome. my directory structure is [artist] - [album]
Message Edited by RadiatedAnt on 10-28-2008 07:46 PM
If the above links have expired, PM me and I’ll update them.
What’s new:
Added M3U8 support.
Added several variants of M3U (Latin1, ACP, ASCII) and codepage conversion error reporting.
Added playlist name format option (based on parent folders).
Added song ordering (based on file attributes and tags).
Folder edit boxes now accept dropped folders.
Note that the Clip supports M3U8 playlists just fine and you should use this format. If, for some reason, you want to use M3U, make sure you select the “M3U (ASCII)” format (the Clip only supports 7-bit US-ASCII characters in M3U playlists).
For the next version I’m thinking about adding some sort of playlist editor and a function to automatically check and fix the playlist entry paths. Any more suggestions are welcome.
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