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mauibay · 12-15-2007, 11:41 PM

ok, I'm stumped how to make collections. I'm sure I must be missing something obvious.

I'm editing the metadata for the books in libprs500, and setting the 'Tags' field to the author's name. All the other metadata is populated from the ISBNdb lookup. I select all the books and click the 'Save to disk' button and save to my SD card. What I want to test is for a collection to appear containing all the books by the same author.

When I insert the SD card in my prs505, the books appear in the title and author lists, but the number of collections is still zero. Also, the books are sorted in the title and author lists based on the actual filename, not the metadata, so many are not in the correct places. I didn't expect that. but can easily fix it by adopting an appropriate filename scheme.

But what's the trick to get the prs505 to generate the collections from the tags I enter in libprs500? I'd really like to not have to enter the xml playlist info in the cache file on the SD card by hand, it would be great if there is some way to generate it from libprs500 or get the prs505 to generate it automatically from the tags.

What am I misunderstanding?

Thanks!

12-15-2007, 11:41 PM	#4
mauibay Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: prs-505	ok, I'm stumped how to make collections. I'm sure I must be missing something obvious. I'm editing the metadata for the books in libprs500, and setting the 'Tags' field to the author's name. All the other metadata is populated from the ISBNdb lookup. I select all the books and click the 'Save to disk' button and save to my SD card. What I want to test is for a collection to appear containing all the books by the same author. When I insert the SD card in my prs505, the books appear in the title and author lists, but the number of collections is still zero. Also, the books are sorted in the title and author lists based on the actual filename, not the metadata, so many are not in the correct places. I didn't expect that. but can easily fix it by adopting an appropriate filename scheme. But what's the trick to get the prs505 to generate the collections from the tags I enter in libprs500? I'd really like to not have to enter the xml playlist info in the cache file on the SD card by hand, it would be great if there is some way to generate it from libprs500 or get the prs505 to generate it automatically from the tags. What am I misunderstanding? Thanks!