How can I play ALL my files shuffled (in Rockbox) ?

[ton]

I remember having read somewhere a way to play ALL your songs/files shuffled, Unfortunately I cannot find it again.
I think I have to make a playlist, comtaining all the files that I have on my H320. But how can I do that in in one step, instead of adding then one after one ?

[pwd666]

I can't give you a step by step cause my H340 is busy, but I belive you go into the folder containing all your music and then press the button that brings up the menu for playlist options, either the "*" or the "AB".(Its been a while cause i havent had to create a new list with all my songs on random ) and select create playlist(it will probably put the playlist one folder up from there). Then you open that playlist and turn shuffle on and turn random on by going into the playmode menu by pressing one of those buttons again. I hope you can figure it out, I rarely ever use those options so I am relying on my ,not so great, memory.

[arrow224]

1) press AB, Playlist options, Recursively insert directories, set to 'on'.
2) Head back to your root music folder (if it is in say E:\MUSIC, then make sure you are in the MUSIC folder)
3) Hold NAVI, playlist, insert
4) This should insert all of your music in the MUSIC folder to the playlist.
5) Enable shuffle.

Done. That should be easy enough to follow.

[catawompus]

You can also easily create playlists with an external program like foobar2000 or winamp.

[Philip_0729]

if you use the database you could always justy go to allsongs and select any of them, it will then add all the songs in the database to the playlist... iirc

[ton]

Thanks for the replies.
Meanwhile I made a playlist, containg all the files on my H320, in Winamp and copied it to my H320. I now can play this list "shuffled". I think indeed that this is the easiest way.

[Mike]

Well, that's a way to do it, it's just an extra step. The player and Rockbox itself easily can create the playlist for you of all your music, as explained above--no computer needed. And then you just play it shuffled. In the end, takes a jiff to do--I just did it in 35 seconds (sorry it took so long, I have over 9000 tunes).