I hope this is helpful: Another playlist hack is to simply rename the genre of the all songs in your list to the same unique name, and then just use the Volt system to play all songs in that "genre." For example, you have your 100 favorite songs that you want to go to at will when in your car. In this case, playlist is on the root of the drive, and the songs are as well. If they are in folders, use the path from the playlist to the file.
How simple can the playlist file be? Just need filenames, that's all. Fixing the Alphabetical playlist "Feature".Ĭan I use a playlist to ensure that Vivaldi's "Autumn" plays after "Summer"? \Classical\Altan\Altan_-_Runaway_Sunday_00_-_Suil_Ghorm.mp3Ĭlassical/Altan/Altan_-_Runaway_Sunday_00_-_Suil_Ghorm.mp3Ĥ. If you want the playlist to work on both the Volt and on Linux, don't use the / at the front.ĭoes it work with both forward and backward slashes?
You need to use 'relative' paths, not 'absolute' paths.įor Windows users, that means remove the "C:\" from the front. This makes it an absolute path, and you don't want that.
media/USB20FD is what my Linux OS calls this particular thumbdrive. (Note: I had a folder called "Altan" in a folder called "Classical". media/USB20FD/Classical/Altan/Altan_-_Runaway_Sunday_00_-_Suil_Ghorm.mp3
The full path (including the name of the drive) was being used for the mp3 file locations: m3u file in a text editor, it was apparent why: When I first exported an M3U format playlist from my music player application onto the USB flash drive, it didn't work in my Volt. M3u8 = MPEG Version 3.0 Extended for UnicodeĪ playlist is really just a text file with information about each song.Īt its simplest, the m3u format requires nothing more than the filenames. ogg files (Ogg-Vorbis, often used on Linux)?
Note: I use Linux on my home computer not MS Windows.Ĭan it read. Why would I want them in alphabetical order? Then I read that it likes to rearrange songs? Hmmm. After 4 days in my new Volt, I just had to master this music on USB flash drive thing.