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BLACK
BOX
PLAYER
- User Manual v 3.1
Or
E:\Birmingham.bbr
The BlackBox Recorder software automatically creates and records its files
into folders based on today’s date so folder names such as:
E:\2011-04-23.bbr
are perfectly acceptable as well.
The audio files you will use to create the playlist do not all have to be in the
same folder providing that all the tracks for each song are kept together.
The Playlist File
The playlist file is a simple text file written in an XML format and stored in
the root folder of the USB drive.
The file should be called “playlist xxxxxxxxx.txt”, where xxxxxxxxx can be any
name you want. There is one special file called “playlist default.txt” which
will load automatically on plugging the disk into the BlackBox Player. But you
can always load a different playlist file from the menu.
So what is XML format? XML is a very simple type of computer code and is
the basis of HTML which is at the heart of the World Wide Web. All
statements in XML are enclosed in tags which are key words surrounded by
triangular brackets. An opening tag looks like this <tag> and a closing tag
looks like this </tag> (i.e. the same word preceded by a backslash “/”) . In
the BlackBox Player playlist file there are just a few tags as follows:
XML tag and examples
Explanation
<f>folder name</f>
e.g. <f>2011-04-23</f>
this makes the folder with this name the
current folder for replaying songs
<s>songnumber</s> or
<s>songname</s>
e.g. <s>001</s>
The song number or song name that you
want to load next, ready for instant
playback. Number takes precedence,
names after numbers are ignored. Don’t
name songs with preceding digits e.g.
