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j.s	2010-02-06 , 21:26
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Originally Posted by flydeep

I have transfered whole bunch of audio files using scp onto my sd and internal memory. They do not show up in the default media player. Is there a way to force scanning for specified folders?

I have tried kmplayer and I cannot chose a folder but rather a single file. Are there any gui's that allows us to add folders to playlist? How do folks transfer large files onto the phone memory/microsd?

Everyday at 5:00 AM, my DVR downloads about a dozen podcasts and scp them to the SD card on my n900. They add up to a few hundred megabytes each day. The DVR also creates the playlist by:

Code:

ls dirname/*.mp3 > dirname/playlistname.m3u

so the playlist gets copied with the mp3 files. The DVR uses the command:

Code:

scp -rp $datadir user@n900:podcasts

where pocasts is a symbolic link from my home directory to a directory on the SD card.

The custom playlist is usually available in the imported namelist listing in the media player almost immediately.

If you copy a lot of files to your n900, it may take a while for the tracker to index them all. Also, you should check that you are not putting the files someplace that the tracker does not index. (It checks almost everywhere.)

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