Playlist: fileinfo.cfg not working?

Started by Anonymous, January 11, 2005, 11:49:03 AM

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Anonymous

Hi there,

I have added 300 cd's te my harddrive, all with playlists etc. But now I have a problem with it.
The playlist menu only show the first 8 chars or so, so I added them to the fileinfo.cfg. But still only the short names are showed. So I did all that work for nothing.

My fileinfo.cfg:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Use this to add long filename info for your playlist files.
  Syntax is as follows:
  filename.m3u=Description to display on LCD    

  If this file is included, the long names will show up in the playlist
  menu when you select, instead of the M3U file.    

----------------------------------------------------------
[Playlist]
MPXT.M3U=Last playlist created
MPXTALL.M3U=All Songs in Database
ABBA - More ABBA Gold More ABBA Hits.m3u=ABBA - More ABBA Gold More ABBA Hits
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor.m3u=Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
All Saints - All Saints.m3u=All Saints - All Saints
...
...
...

What am I doing wrong?

I'm using the beta version 4. But I tried using the latest official version with the same results...

matthias

Fileinfo.cfg needs following syntax:

ANASTA~1.m3u=Anastacia  - Anastacia
ANASTA~2.m3u=Anastacia - Freak Of Nature
ANASTA~3.m3u=Anastacia - Not That Kind
AVRILL~1.m3u=Avril Lavigne - 454SS

It´s a helly job to write down all short file names, but you can use the freeware DirReader to create a file list with long and short file names.
Copy the m3u files under plain Dos in another directory to create short named files.
Start Windows,start DirReader and make a filelist of the short and the long filenames
Copy them to Excel and save it as a txt file and copy them to the the cfg and you´re ready.
Takes 15 minutes ;-)
http://www.polarsoft.de/html/polarsoft_-___dirreader__.html" target="_blank">http://www.polarsoft.de/html/polarsoft_-___dirreader__.html
Menu is in German or English.

Matthias
http://www.mbudde.de/mp3player/mp3_start.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mbudde.de/mp3player/mp3_start.htm

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