Question about playlist

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This will play all tracks in that playlist.

The reason it's not in the FAQ is that no one has ever asked that question before. No one has ever "not known" that the triangle means "play".

You've been on this forum for quite a while, Ladmo, how have you been using the player all this time without knowing that?

Well, I still don't know what the "double quaver" symbol in a playlist is supposed to mean, and I got player number 15!

So neeny-neeny-ner-ner!

if a double quaver is a musical note, i believe it means a track in the root of the playlist.

The musical note icon is how you show individual tracks instead of sub-playlists.

Works like this:

- If you have a playlist that is all just individual tracks, then they will all show by default.

- If you have a playlist that is all just sub-playlists, they they will all show by default.

- If you have a playlist that is a combination of sub-playlists and individual tracks, then it will only show the sub-playlists, and hide the individual tracks behind that musical note icon.

That is what he means, and I think you're right, but how is that different than the normal listing of tracks in a playlist? Does it only show up when there are both playlists and tracks in the current playlist?

yes

Tony, you have no concept of what I have gone through to finally HAVE an Empeg...Ask RobS...he has a slight idea, and I am still going through some of it. I thought one of the ideas of the forum was to learn and find out things you didn't know. I didn't know...Why, you ask? Stupidity? Ignorance? Lack of understanding? Being a conservative? Take your pick. There are a lot of fantistic people on empegbbs, and I thought one of them would know...AND....this time, I took the suggested route of looking through (and through and through) the FAQ in order NOT to be busted for it...but guess what???? Oh well...as someone once said....Let there be toast! And i may not be very educated on the Empeg, but I do know how to bootstrap a PDP/11, or how to totaly disect a VAX 11/780 and a MicroVax, and I used to disassemble 6502 code by hand....not very impressive by you younger guys standards I'm sure, but back in the 70's and 80's it was a feat, as we did not have resources such as the empegbbs...of course, we did have our awesome 300 baud modems and accoustic couplers!

Please forgive me if I have offended you and/or your FAQ. I will refrain from doing so again.

he wasnt attacking you. just shocked that someone could have been using an empeg for some time and not have figured out that the triangle is play. actually, im not even sure how someone could like the empeg if they couldnt choose more than one track at a time.

Well, you could just select the prior hierarchical playlist, which works as well...

Even then you'd have to press the play triangle since if you select a playlist, hierarchical ro not, it's just going to dig down first.

Don't feel bad about not knowing about the triangle thing. It confused me a bit too until another owner told me how it worked (and I have a degree in Computer Science)! I didn't spot that the icon was something I could interact with at first. I had fluked it once though and it was set on my "everything" list, so I was happy for a while. D'oh!

A couple of nice features also to do with that little play icon:

First: If you hold the "down" button on it for a second or so, you'll get options to insert/append etc. So, you can have a nice long playlist running and think to yourself "I'd really like to hear album X right now", and insert it such that it resumes your long playlist in the same place after the album is finished. Or you could queue several albums up to play one after the other with "append".

Second: The play icon plays all songs AND sub-playlists at the current level. So, if you set up a folder for each artist with their albums as sub-playlists (best done with jEmplode and a soup playlist) you can choose to play just "Dark Side of the Moon", or "Pink Floyd" which would include all of their albums on the Empeg.

Actually, the insert/append thing works with individual tracks in addition to the play icon.

My apologies, Ladmo, for sounding patronizing. That was not my intent. I'm very sorry.

I was just trying to defend why it wasn't in the FAQ, that's all.

And I was genuinely wondering how you played playlists without using that icon.

I would just create the playlist in Emplode and then move it over to the Empeg by sync. I then would just play it 'by hand'. I love the Empeg, but after all, it is all about the music (well...mostly about the music!)
Maybe I should look at the Empeg manual that came with the machine...it probalby says so, but who knows where I put it...
Thanks, Tony, and I really appreciate the FAQ! It has been invaluable.