playlists for VortexBox and Qute

Please, anybody have some experience here?  Tog and Guido seem to be major VortexBox advocates.  Are you running playlists?  Any information would be much appreciated.

Alas no - I'm not a great playlist user. Vortexbox itself doesn't have the ability to create playlists since it is a suite of programs that work together to create a powerful media server. It will store and serve playlists created in other programs - particularly Squeezebox Server - which is why you will find a folder labelled "playlists" within Vortexbox. Use the fantastic Ipeng for IPhone to create the SBS playlists. I think you can also use ITunes or Winamp created playlists but I have not tried this yet. I would also assume that dbpoweramp created playlist might also work. The best thing would be for N-Stream to include playlist creation - but then we are still waiting for the next update

Tog

Thanks, I will definitely look into Ipeng.

What is so frustrating is that a button appears next to an album or song selected in Squuezbox Server that indicates "add to current playlist," but when I click, nothing happens.  I'm wondering whether I need to change the path for the playlists.  Or perhaps Vortexbox Player needs to be activated (this is the hardware component that generates analogue output--not needed with Qute).  But when I press "start" for VB Player, nothing happens.  Some internal settings need to changed, evidently.

VB is nice for the money, but documentation is almost nonexistent.

I used my test VB with a Sonus player - it created the playlist - which in my case is usually an entire album. Otherwise I just used the Naim UQ remote to select an artist then album and played the first rack and let it play through the rest. Sorry can't be much help, but the VB forum is quite active and they guys will try their best to help. 

@aht - Yes I believe you should make sure that SBS has the correct VB file path 

/storage/files/music/playlists

Tog

Tog,

Thanks for the suggestion.  My SBS came configured with the playlist path as "/storage/music/playlists", and when I tried to change it to your version, it wouldn't save; it just reverted to the old path.

Something is fishy here.  I will pursue this on the VB forum.  It would be helpful to have access to terminal mode on the VB, but currently I'm waiting for a VGA->DVI adapter to arrive.

I can play complete albums from the Qute, no problem.  It's just nice to have multi-CD sets play through without interruption.

Using terminal on a Mac

ssh root@your VB's IP

Tog

Thanks for the tip on terminal mode from the Mac.  I vaguely thought that should be possible, but didn't know how to do it.

Still haven't solved my problem, but it's fun operating from the command line.  Reminds me of the good old CP/M days...