Playlists and Folders

[fatboy_1999]

I'm still having problems figuring out the playlists and folders on my unit.

I'm getting a weird issue even with the generated plalist files from the MPIO utility.
EG: I go into Music - Albums - select one from the list - All tracks are shown, I select one and it takes me to the Now Playing area and tells me all the right info (EG 001/014 and so on) and starts playing the 1st song. However, it only seems to be able to play the first 6 tracks and then stops. If I try to jump past the track, unit hangs for a short time and tehn returns to track 1 of the playlist.

If you create your own folders, where should you put them and should they come up in the navigation?

Should I avoid using the MPIO utility?

Any specific way I should be creating playlists?

If anyone could give me a bit of a step by step, I would greatly appreciate. I really just want to create playlists of 256 songs or less that I can have some faith in.

Thanks.

[MrTNT]

I'm getting a weird issue even with the generated plalist files from the MPIO utility.
EG: I go into Music - Albums - select one from the list - All tracks are shown, I select one and it takes me to the Now Playing area and tells me all the right info (EG 001/014 and so on) and starts playing the 1st song. However, it only seems to be able to play the first 6 tracks and then stops. If I try to jump past the track, unit hangs for a short time and tehn returns to track 1 of the playlist.

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How many other files are in the directory with the files in the playlist?
What happens when you try to play the playlist in Winamp or Windows Media Player?

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If you create your own folders, where should you put them and should they come up in the navigation?

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Put all directories in the Music Folder.
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Should I avoid using the MPIO utility?

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I'm still using it just to generate the playlist. But then I move the files do another Playlist directory I created in the music folder, because I have more than 256 playlists for my artists.
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Any specific way I should be creating playlists?

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Let the MPIO Utility do it, but you can also make playlist with Winamp or Windows Media Player if you'd like to make customized playlist.
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If anyone could give me a bit of a step by step, I would greatly appreciate. I really just want to create playlists of 256 songs or less that I can have some faith in.

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You can have as many songs as you want in a Playlist, just don't have more than 256 playlist files in the same directory.
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[fatboy_1999]

MrTNT - Thank you.

It all makes sense now.

It still sucks that MPIO have the 256 song limitation, but at least now I can go
around it.

Thanks again.