What is the minidisc equivalent to a playlist?

[DrSiddons]

This may be old news, but I'd like to know. I've heard a great deal about playlists on iPods. What the equivalent for a minidisc?

How do I set it up? Is this something I can do in SonicStage?

Thanks in advance.

KS

[Damage]

On-board, they are bookmarks (though it has nothing to do with audiobooks, or books in general). Hold down the play button until you see a little bookmark icon and the word "ON" Flash. After you've bookmarked all your tracks that you want to listen to, you can choose bookmark play, and it'll play through your marked tracks.

On SonicStage, you can compile playlists. Press the Edit/Create playlist near the top, and follow the generally easy to follow steps to create your playlist. When you transfer yoru playlist to your HiMD, it moves those tracks into a group with the same name as the playlist you've created. In SonicStage 3.x, they are represented with Red Squarish icons and called Playlists. In SonicStage 2.x, they are called compilations. They basically do the same function.

Note that, at least with HiMD and MDs, if you have 2 playlists, say playlist ROCK and playlist POP and one single song is on both playlist, that song will be transferred twice. It's for all HiMD units and NetMD units. Unknown if a future unit will be able to handle playlist properly (in that the single song in both ROCK and POP playlist should be transferred once).

[tommypeters]

How lucky I am to usually want to listen to records from beginning to end, that was an unusually user-unfriendly way of implementing playlists.

[DrSiddons]

On-board, they are bookmarks (though it has nothing to do with audiobooks, or books in general).  Hold down the play button until you see a little bookmark icon and the word "ON" Flash.  After you've bookmarked all your tracks that you want to listen to, you can choose bookmark play, and it'll play through your marked tracks.

On SonicStage, you can compile playlists.  Press the Edit/Create playlist near the top, and follow the generally easy to follow steps to create your playlist.  When you transfer yoru playlist to your HiMD, it moves those tracks into a group with the same name as the playlist you've created.  In SonicStage 3.x, they are represented with Red Squarish icons and called Playlists.  In SonicStage 2.x, they are called compilations.  They basically do the same function.

Note that, at least with HiMD and MDs, if you have 2 playlists, say playlist ROCK and playlist POP and one single song is on both playlist, that song will be transferred twice.  It's for all HiMD units and NetMD units.  Unknown if a future unit will be able to handle playlist properly (in that the single song in both ROCK and POP playlist should be transferred once).

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Thanks for replying.

Can a playlist be created after the songs have been transfered to a minidisc?

ks

[Sparky191]

How lucky I am to usually want to listen to records from beginning to end, that was an unusually user-unfriendly way of implementing playlists.

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I'm the same. But for me its because I never really had a lot of music on a device to need a playlist. Have a MP3 player now and a HiMD so maybe its something I'll make use of.

[Bananatree]

Siddons M.D

You can "group" the tracks, and bookmark, but once the music is on the disc, it is kind of fixed there unless you move it.

Even though with HiMD using FAT, you'd think that Sony could outfit HiMD with a playlisting option.

However, regular MD is Disc=playlist in almost all situations, unless you have group mode, but then you have to keep the track all in a row, or move them on this disc so they can be made into playlists. (however, you cannot have one copy of a song in 2 different groups)

[DrSiddons]

Siddons M.D

You can "group" the tracks, and bookmark, but once the music is on the disc, it is kind of fixed there unless you move it.

Even though with HiMD using FAT, you'd think that Sony could outfit HiMD with a playlisting option.

However, regular MD is Disc=playlist in almost all situations, unless you have group mode, but then you have to keep the track all in a row, or move them on this disc so they can be made into playlists. (however, you cannot have one copy of a song in 2 different groups)

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I suspected this - just wanted to make sure. A 'playlist' feature would be a nice addition to the system.

Thanks for the response.

ks