Thread: how to get Media Player to find mp3s and playlists
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j.s is offline j.s
2009-12-21 , 02:37
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Originally Posted by qobi View Post
I transfered some mp3s into /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/mp3/albums/ and some playlists into /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/mp3/lists/ but Media Player can't find them. Where am I supposed to put them so that they are found? Or how do I get Media Player to find them?

Also, where do I put videos so that Media Player finds them? And where do I put photos so that the Photos app find them?

Jeff (http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~qobi)
Have you tried looking in MyDocs for the included videos and photos? (Try .videos and .images) There is a tracker daemon that looks all over the place, but stays out of configurably excluded directories. Search on tracker.

I haven't experimented much with playlists, because what I need works. I have my audio files in subdirectories under /media/mmc1/podcasts. Each directory has a listname.m3u file with the audio file names in it. No directory path.

The media player sees new directories soon after they show up. I did nothing to tell anything on the n900 about this. After about a week, I reformatted the SD card to ext2. Everything was fine for about a week, then I rebooted and got something about partition type not supported. (Hmmph!) I mounted it by hand, then after a day, found out that I needed to clear the tracker database and restart tracker by opening the media player.