Playlists and over useability

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Ian Kermack

I am quite disappointed overall with the BlueSoind playlist features. I no order of importance:

Favourites:

- I am unable to see anyway to play all the songs that I have listed a favourites. It would be helpful to be able to do so

- there is no way to sort favourites they show up in chronological order as to when you marked them as favourite

Playlists:

- there is no way to sort a playlist, e.g. by song name, by artist, this would be helpful especially with long playlists ... 

- an export/import function would be nice to allow edit/re-order etc. in something like Excel if BlueSound is unable to provide similar features within the BlueOS app

Overall Playlist utility is poor, especially when you have a large library ... 

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  • Official comment
    Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Ian

    You cannot sort Favouriites no, but you can play favourite songs by selecting the first one and letting Auto Fill do the rest...

    Also if you are using an external local library such as a NAS or USB on the back of your player (with server mode enabled), .M3U playlists made externally will import with the Local Library Index.

  • Brian
    Lossless

    I concur.

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  • Kevin Coffey

    All of my music is on a SSD USB-connected to the N130. When the SSD is removed and contents modified, reindexing is often needed after reconnecting. It seems that BluOS playlists that had been created are then empty after the reindex, which is just horrible. Why can BluOS playlists created not be maintained or automatically updated as needed during a reindex so valuable playlist creation is not lost?

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  • Ian Kermack

    Ian Kermack here, once again ... I re-iterate that the Favourites and Playlist features of BlueSound are truly lacking in functionality ... I so sincerely wish that there was a better way to manage/edit/maintain playlists and be able to play favourites randomly ... this is not the first time I have asked this question ... at the bare minimum I woudl so sincerely like to see a function that allowed export/import to Excel, or a csv format that would let me edit/organize playlists ... for me this is becoming a larger and larger irritant and I am sincerely wanting options ... my music is important to me, it is central ... PLEASE consider these requests ... my first request was sent two years ago ... I am clearly NOT the only person that cares about this ... Ian Kermack

     

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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Kevin

    Our Quality Assurance team has been able to replicate your issue. It appears the N130 does not recognise the drive being re-inserted as the original drive those playlists were stored so cannot accurately cross reference the stored playlist. They have kicked it over to our Product Development Team to resolve in a near future update... I don't have an estimated time frame just yet on that.

    The only workaround I can think of - and it's not a pretty one... is to consider an external .m3u playlist on the same USB drive that will be imported when the drive is re-indexed....

    https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000464567

    And yes we are also adding the spec to automagically re-index the drive as part of this report to our Product Development Team.

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  • Kevin Coffey

    Thanks, Tony. Can you refer me to a specific example of creating .m3u playlists and where to put those? On the USB-attached SSD, the music is organized as \artist\album\song.mp3

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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    It's in the Help Centre Article under Relative Paths. The playlists go in the root of the drive.

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