Actually, it is indeed possible to add files to an existing playlist after it has been created. You just have to know the paths to get to them, so you can type in their names. Before doing that, though, there are a couple considerations to think
about.
If you regularly print files, I suggest you create a new blank keyword text document, then save it somewhere. You might call it something like "default paper settings". This way, if you quickly need to return to the default factory settings, you
just open that file, enter the layout list, move onto the first option, and hit backspace with r to restore the settings from the list as the default settings for new files. Repeat that same procedure with the page settings list.
Before editting the contents of your first ascii file (txt, htm, xml, m3u), I suggest you create a new blank keyword text document. Set all margins to 0, then both paper width and length to 250. Before exitting both the layout and page settings
list, hit backspace with s to save the new settings as the default for every newly created file. Save the new file as, say, "playlist editting". You can now open any ascii file from now on, and the lines will stay the way they originally were in
the file. This will FORCE the bn to keep things that should be on one line the way they are. I don't know why, but this is the only way to keep text in an ascii file from wrapping onto multiple lines when it clearly should not be doing so. Also,
when opening such a file, change both of the options that say something about line or paragraph formatting so that they say line, then exit the list, and the file will be saved properly when you're finished with it.
The procedure in the past two paragraphs, by the way, will NOT affect braille
documents or brf files, which should be a relief for those who regularly emboss
documents using a bn.
The format for a file path is /drive/folder/sub-folder/sub-sub-folder/... filename, including extension. For example, "/sd card/music/decades/80s/Pat Benatar - Hit Me with your Best Shot.mp3. After the filename, press enter, and type the next
file location, and so on, until you're finished adding files.
Another option for adding files to an existing playlist is to use the block
commands menu to insert another playlist file into the currently open one. You
could, using this method, create, say, a master playlist that contains all your
music.
Or, i could always send anyone who wants one either or both of the web page apps I've written for dealing with playlists. The first one is a primitive playlist creator (though you could also use it to add files to a playlist) which I developed
while running Keysoft 7.2 on my mPower. The second is a shuffler for your playlists. Detailed instructions are built in to each "app", so I won't explain how to use them here.
Suffice it to say that anyone, on this list or not, is perfectly free to
contact me, and I will gladly send you a copy of one or both utilities.
I hope this helps you when working with playlist files. Things got a little complicated in this message (which I apologize for), as they sometimes do when I wish to aid bn users with something that SHOULD be easy. Unfortunately, our bn's were not
programmed to make everything easy, so innovators like Alex Hall, Joseph Lee, myself, and others have to find creative ways to work around the occasional bug or overlooked obstacle when something needs to be done using a bn. When the first user
wrote a webpage on a bn that could do something useful, like function as a calculator (it was not me), a doorway previously unknown to us was opened, if not all the way, then certainly wide enough for the light of software development to shine like a
beacon of hope, so that others could easily accomplish tasks that were impossible before.
Webpage apps can't do as much as an actual program, like the GPS software, but they definitely help us do useful and often interesting things. My very first one, for example, will help you count any loose change. Without that utility, you'd have
to use the scientific calculator, remembering to multiply each number of coins by its coin's decimal equivalent (the quarter being 0.25), and hope you didn't make a mistake during the calculations.
Sorry for the extra speech at the end there. grin. I hope everyone has a
wonderful day.
Marvin
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