[icon-discuss] Re: Two play list problems

  • From: Yerba Bruja <yerbabruja@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:42:11 -0400

Thanks Paul. I realized that when I attempted to send tracks to a playlist today. I was able when bringing up the menu key to find the option that allowed me to add the tracks to the playlist from a folder, and this time I am hearing them in order. I realized later that this option didn't seem to appear when I would first bring up the menu key, but I had to reset the unit for some other problem and now I seee the option.
Thanks a lot and to everybody else that opined on this problem. Your suggestions were very helpful. 

Marta
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Henrichsen" <paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:55 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Two play list problems



Marta. Not the select key, but the menu key. Sorry if I mis spoke.
Once you get to the folder you want, hit the menu key and go to the add this 
to the play list item.





From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marta Rodriguez
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:36 AM
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Two play list problems



Thanks Paul.  I'll try that.  It hadn't occurred to me to hit the select
key, as sometimes that key serves to activate functions, and I thought it
would open the folder.



Marta
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Henrichsen <mailto:paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:57 AM

Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Two play list problems
Hi, Marta. Don't use the pound key to mark the folder. That was where I made 
my mistake. They won't play in the correct order if you do that.
Just select the folder you want, where your audio book is then bring up the 
menu and add that folder to a play list.
So, if you had disk one of an audio book in its own folder, you would select 
that folder then bring up the menu and press okay on add this folder to a
play list. Next, go to the folder containing disk two and do the same adding 
it to the same play list where you added the first folder.

I added two folders in this way and they both put the files in the correct
sequence.
My mistake was in thinking I needed to press pound to mark the files within 
a folder.

Evidently, you don't need to do that<grin>.





From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marta Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:45 PM
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Two play list problems
I don't know about the icon, but I've had no luck getting my braille plus to 
deal with play lists in a manner that would allow the unit to play the
tracks of an album or an audio book in order.
First I copied the audio book to the music folder. Then I went to the music 
application, created a new play list to accommodate the first folder of my
mp3 audio book.  Then I went to files, from the music application, looked
for the first folder of the book, selected it with the pound key, and then
chose the option that would allow me to send that folder to the newly
created playlist.



The files were added, but then when I went back to the playlist and chose
play all, the tracks were played out of order, and what's more, the unit
selected portions of another audio folder that I had in the system, which I hadn't gone anywhere near when I was highlighting the first CD to be sent to 
that playlist.



I then erased that playlist, created it again, and tried highlighting the
tracks individually so as to add them to the playlist. The problem is that 
after I selected the first track with the pound button, each time I would
move to the next track it would select the previous tracks again.  So I
ended up with more than 200 files in the playlist that should've only had 27 
tracks, because it had selected each track in that folder multiple times.
The only way that I seem to be able to hear my audio books in an orderly
fashion is to put just one book at a time in the music folder, choose author 
from the music application, and then play all songs.  But getting the unit
to look at each folder as separate albums and playing them accordingly, or
getting it to play the selected tracks in a playlist in order do not work
for me at all.



Marta
----- Original Message ----- 
From: jenny Axler <mailto:jaxler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Thursday, January 01, 1970 12:15 AM

Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Two play list problems



I have two suggestions for you that might make this easier.  If you're in
Files
Mode, you can mark things as you mentioned, but all do stay selected, so you
may want to mark everything first, then add it all to the playlist at once. 

But, in that case, they may not add in the order you like.  so, instead of
selecting the folders first, when in Files Mode, highlight the folder you
want
to add, press the Menu key, and arrow down to the option that says "Add all files in this folder to a playlist". This will allow you to add each folder 

individually, and the songs should add in the order they appear in each of
the
folders, as you are correct in that playlist items, when added, are
appended,
not put in a specific order. When all selected items are added though, the 
selected files are put in an order before they are added.  does this make
sense?

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:21:41 -0700, Paul Henrichsen wrote:





Hi, guys.
I decided to try my hand at building a playlist today.
I used two albums where the tracks are numbered from 01 to 12 in the first 
and

01 to 13 in the second.
The first time, I thought Id go to the first folder and tell the braille

plus
to put each of the tracks into a play list. Since there wasnt one, I had to 


create one and the tracks were placed in the list.
I then went to the second folder and did the same. But since the first 12
tracks were still marked, adding the second folder put the first folder in
again along with the tracks in the second folder.
Instead of having 25 tracks, I had 35.
I noticed, also, that the tracks were not in any particular order

numerically.

I erased the playlist and decided to mark each individual track in each

folder.


I noted that once I had added the first folder, when I went to the second
folder, my first track started at 14 as the first folders tracks were still 


marked.
Exiting the process and starting again to add the second album fixes this
problem.
I then went and marked all of the tracks in the second folder and added

them to

the play list.
Now, I had the proper number of tracks.
However, on examining the play list, the first track was 06 rather than 01

as I

would have expected since 01 of album one was the first track added to the

play

list.
It seems the tracks are just put into the play list in random order rather

than

by their number or the sequence in which they were added.
I seem to remember that someone on this list stated that tracks added to a

play

list are appended to the end of that list.
One would think, therefore, that the list should have started with 01 going 
to

12 then from 01 of the second album to 13.
However, this was not the case.
The marks being retained in the first album makes sense and can be gotten
around if you know to exit the process before you add another album to the

play

list, but why are the tracks not in the order in which they were added?
Thanks.
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