Re: Send playlist to device

[sean mallard]

Does anyone know how to send the "playing tracks" list to a device and insert the position in that list as the first characters of the filenames? I tried using "track count" in the filename settings for this device but every filename just starts with "Unknown Track Count"

The device I'm transferring to has no screen and no reasonable playlist access so the m3u doesn't help. I just want to throw 45 mins worth of workout songs in a specific order and be able to do it quickly and I have no need to save these playlist, I just toss them into the "playing tracks" list on the fly then highlight them all and choose "send to device"

Maybe I just don't know the filename tag that might work for this?

Thanks!

[tjinc]

Welcome to the forum,

I don't think you can do this using device synching - for this you would need to save the tracks to a playlist first.
If you do not need to do any format conversion or volume levelling or anything like that, then:

    Select all tracks > Right-click > Send To > Folder (Copy) > Copy Files To Folder

Then choose a folder on your device.

[BoringName]

If it didn't matter what number format it was in and was just to get them in order on the device, I tried to be clever and used
$Right($SubDateTime($Now()," 28/01/2025 7:00"),5)<Title>

Where you would have to set 28/01/2025 7:00 to a value earlier than now before sending to the device.

For some reason when I first tested it the SubDateTime was giving me 00:01:00:123 so I was able to display the second and millisecond values but now it's only showing 00:01:00 which isn't helpful as everything processes in less than a second... not sure what I changed there.

In any case, because the process is so fast some tracks had the same millisecond value and they weren't quite processed in now playing order anyway.