Missing Playlist?

This has been happening to me in my root playlist for ages now... since 2.00 betas I believe. I was just never bugged enough to do anything about it. I've tried creating new playlists and reorganizing it to fix it... Nothing seems to work... Anyone else have this?

Just opened up Jemplode and a thought came to me...

Is "Unattached Items" #5?

i thought it was #2.

Nope

not 2

It's really whatever position you want it to be. It's invisible in Emplode, but visible in jEmplode, but even in Emplode it takes one of the position slots. You should be able to use the arrows to move your "To File" playlist up into the number 5 spot, which would leave unattached in the 6 spot, and get your numbers in order at least.

For some reason, in Emplode, I can't move playlists around with the arrow buttons in the root playlist. They are greyed out. All other playlists can be sorted manually.

For some reason, in Emplode

Er, precisely because the "Unattached Items" playlist is hidden. Unfortunately, Tony (I think) found a bug in the move up/down buttons where emplode would crash when moving playlists in the root. It was caused by an off-by-one error directly caused by the presence of a hidden playlist.

We didn't have time to fix it before whichever release was due out next, so I simply turned the functionality off in the root playlist.

My bad.

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For some reason, in Emplode, I can't move playlists around with the arrow buttons in the root playlist. They are greyed out. All other playlists can be sorted manually.

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I remember that now. I remember having to put numbers in the artist field of the playlists in my root so that I could sort them that way as a workaround.

Perhaps jemplode will let you reorder?

My bad.

By the way: the Set Playlist Order menu option still works in the root playlist.

If you'd prefer to have your playlists in a custom order, one possible workaround is to rename your root playlists as, e.g, "00 Genres", "01 Artists", "02 Special Playlists", "03 Soundtracks", etc., and then use the Set Playlist Order function. Then change the names back.

You might still have a gap in the numbering where the "Unattached Items" playlist would be, but it's a minor irritation (IMO).

Alternatively, use JEmplode.

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If you'd prefer to have your playlists in a custom order, one possible workaround is to rename your root playlists as, e.g, "00 Genres", "01 Artists", "02 Special Playlists", "03 Soundtracks", etc., and then use the Set Playlist Order function.

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Or just stick the numbers in the "artist" field (or some other unused one) and leave them there.

Thanks Roger! That fixed it. Like I said, it never really bothered me that much. Posted it more as a curiousity.

I fill out the "artist" field with the directory names I have on the PC, e.g. "Bowie, David", and put the name I want to appear on the Empeg as the playlist name, e.g. "David Bowie". Then just sort by artist to get them in the right order.

Steve.