My M6 SL's not a bad music player but its unpolished firmware's a pain
. I like to use playlists cuz it organises my music the way I want to, but:
- the M6 typically freezes for a few seconds if you select a song to play within a long (>10 songs??) playlist.
- the touch-sensitive strip sometimes accidentally registers a "click" and starts playing the song currently selected while i'm still scrolling through the playlist.
So having configured Mediamonkey (a good music manager btw) for a night i thought of a workaround for both problems - tell MM to physically sort files by playlists while syncing with the M6, and using the M6's browser to navigate your songs.
In your Mediamonkey configuration for the M6 while its plugged in, enter one of these into the "Sync tracks to:" field:
Method 1) To physically sort songs by Album Artist, Album, Track no and then title (this is what i'm using for the video):
\Music\<Playlist>\<Album Artist:10>-<Album:3><Track#>-<Title>
Method 2) To physically sort songs following the original order of your playlist:
\Music\<Playlist>\<Auto Number> <Artist:10>-<Title>
Where the ":10" limits the number of characters to 10 for the album artist, ":3" for 3 characters of the Album name. Of course you can change the numbers yourself if you want different or no character limits. I limit them because i want to be able to see as much of the song titles as possible, and yet have the files sorted nicely by artists (if you followed method 1 above) or according to the order of the original playlist (method 2).
Result: No freezing in playlists, double-tapping ensures u won't accidentally start playing an item while you're scrolling in a playlist!! Here's a youtube video illustrating the result. Hope the guide was of use to someone!
