Re: Combining two directories into one?

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Steph yahoo wrote:

> The last playlist, wether a "current pl" (automatically created by 
> selecting/playing a music file in a given directory) OR a saved playlist 
> (opened/played by selecting it in a given directory) can be saved with 
> all added tracks

True enough.

Actually, if I had loads and loads of tracks and I just wanted to play 
them all shuffled, I'd generate a monolithic playlist for the sake of 
convenience:

find [player mountpoint] -regextype posix-egrep \
   -regex '.*((mp3)|(ogg)|(flac))$' \
   -printf '/%P\n' > [player mountpoint]/all.m3u8

find [SD mountpoint] -regextype posix-egrep \
   -regex '.*((mp3)|(ogg)|(flac))$' \
   -printf '/<microSD1>/%P\n' >> [player mountpoint]/all.m3u8

Or something similar.

> I never use the database either because when it becomes really big, 
> there is no player that browses quickly enough through it (smartphones 
> using rb as an app might if it was developped up to an officially 
> "supported" version

I can't speak for iPhone, but Android has its own database and I've found 
the management of it to be so poor (of course you can't turn it off) that 
I've given up on keeping large numbers of media files on any of my Android 
devices anyway.  It just runs the battery down and/or persistently 
corrupts the database.
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