what is a "go list" for

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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I am new to mp3 and I feel like I’ve just discovered indoor plumbing! I have a lot of what are probably stupid questions, this is only the beginning.

What happens when you add a song to a “go list” and why would I want to do that. What is the differance between that and a play list? 

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mcostas wrote:

I am new to mp3 and I feel like I’ve just discovered indoor plumbing! I have a lot of what are probably stupid questions, this is only the beginning.

 

What happens when you add a song to a “go list” and why would I want to do that. What is the differance between that and a play list? 

 

This is a playlist that you can edit as you go. So if you come across a song you like and you want to hear more often you can put them on there so you can hear it.

What I do with it is, if I add a new song to my player that I would like to hear as I go to bed I add it to my go list which is the playlist I use at bed time.

 In a perfectly Ideal world it would be a playlist that you could edit on the go.  

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In a perfect world you could make multiple playlists on the Fuze itself. :wink:

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I use my Go List for positive, uplifting music.  Then if I’m feeling down or sometimes on my way to work I listen to it.

If you wanted to you could create a go list, then create a playlist (on Media Monkey or you choice) and then create another go list of something else.

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I tried out this “go list”, I had a couple songs in there, but today it was empty! Does syncing make it go away?

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mcostas wrote:
I tried out this “go list”, I had a couple songs in there, but today it was empty! Does syncing make it go away?

I believe it resets whenever you plug into the computer and dis-connect, but since I don’t use it I could be mistaken.

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I just checked it today and it was still there. I have hooked it up to the computer but I haven’t resynced yet.

I still don’t quite understand the differance. Why have playlists that you can’t edit on the fly? It seems like they would all fuction the same as the golist.

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The go list on the Fuze isn’t a separate file. It’s embedded in the database. So if the database is recreated every time you add some files, the go-list may get zapped.

Frankly, it’s a crappy implementation of on-demand playlist. Of all the “missing” features that Rockbox fans yap about, this is one of the legitimate ones.

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“Why have playlists that you can’t edit on the fly?”

My #1 complaint of the Fuze. Sansa would have to implement much more then just a playlist to make that work. You would have options like “INSERT, APPEND, ENQUE, REORDER”.

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Peregrine wrote:

“Why have playlists that you can’t edit on the fly?”

My #1 complaint of the Fuze. Sansa would have to implement much more then just a playlist to make that work. You would have options like “INSERT, APPEND, ENQUE, REORDER”.

 

 

I just used the GoList on my Clip+ the other day for the first time. I took about 2 minutes, to cobble together a 30-song list to play while on a short road trip. Why make this list at all? To have songs that were agreeable to the driver , in addition to me, without having to skip tracks, or navigate the player in a moving car. It worked perfectly…I shuffled through the list, and never felt any need to add to the list, or make another one, etc, etc.

I still fail to see the need to do these things, I have to say.:wink:

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I’ve used the GoList extensively since I first had my fuze in 2008.

Partially this is due to the hassle of creating and maintaining playlists.  Always seems to be some problem…and I usually want to change up my playlist frequently so I’d rather do it on the device rather than via a PC.

Originally there were 100 tunes max for GoList and this was increased to 200 in one of the updates.  Nice!

I jsut find it effortless.  Add or Delete from GoList whenever you want.  Pretty simple and effiective.

I wish there was a second GoList so you could keep an ongoing one and then have a special event GoList (for a road-trip or a party for instance).

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Then it would be a playlist! A nice user friendly playlist!

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“I just used the GoList on my Clip+ the other day for the first time. I took about 2 minutes, to cobble together a 30-song list to play while on a short road trip. Why make this list at all? To have songs that were agreeable to the driver , in addition to me, without having to skip tracks, or navigate the player in a moving car. It worked perfectly…I shuffled through the list, and never felt any need to add to the list, or make another one, etc, etc”

That’s how I am using my current go list. Its stuff I like the best, minus the metal and other stuff the general population might not appreciate. I am hesitant to do much changing to it though. I don’t want to get tired of my favorite songs though, so I might take a few of them out.

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mcostas wrote:

I am hesitant to do much changing to it though. I don’t want to get tired of my favorite songs though, so I might take a few of them out.

There’s always ‘Play All’ and Shuffle. A playlist limited only by how many songs you have on your player & memory card combined.

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You’ve obviously never had a player that did these things or you wouldn’t talk such nonsense. :wink:

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Peregrine wrote:

You’ve obviously never had a player that did these things or you wouldn’t talk such nonsense. :wink:

 

Maybe not. But I’ve seen so much stress and aggravation in this forum and others , the last year and a half, related to playlists, that I consider myself fortunate my usage patterns don’t require them.

 Remember how everyone clamored over folder browsing, and rejoiced when it was added? I couldn’t even tell you when the last time was that I used it…and all three of my players have it. I suspect these playlist features you want, would be unused on my player, just like folder browsing is.

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I browse by authors, or rarely albums. This is for collabrative ones, I can find them easier.

I never browse by folders. I tried but didn’t see the advantage.

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I added some songs from the radio but now don’t see where I was when I did that.  HELP!

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You can’t add songs from the radio; only from the files you’ve added to the memory.