Ric Tibbetts wrote:
<snip> > Loading the files could be scripted easily enough to automate that... I was going to use mkplaylist.pl (http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_1731.html) as a base starting point to do that myself, but my priorities got changed for me and I never got around to it. It recurses directories (relative) and makes a playlist for desktop mp3 players. I figured I'd modify it to randomly select tunes, check the size and make a playlist just big enough to fill my Rio, then start going down the list and loading them up with rioutil. Something to be aware of: There's a time lag between rioutil thinking it's done uploading a tune and the Rio being done processing it into storage. As you would expect, the time lag is dependent on the size of the file. At any rate, if a new tune starts to upload while a previous one is processing on the Rio, one of three things will happen: The first tune will be truncated, completely absent, or the current tune will abort loading. So in a script, you'd want to trap for a return code from the Rio (if it generates one; and it must), or block for a time based on the size of each tune prior to starting another upload. Even loading things manually, you have to watch the processing indicator on the Rio's interface before you start loading again. Mike
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