Adding songs to the sansa with rockbox currently still has to be done via the original firmware (OF). But, everytime I would plug in the usb cable, (with the unit off to have it automatically start up and boot to OF), the OF would insist on "refreshing the database". This could take several minutes. The latest version of the rockbox bootloader fixed that. It now prevents an OF database refresh when the unit is powered up via usb. Great. Just had to run sansapatcher -d, then sansapatcher --install.
Now, the next issue was that sometimes the files loaded from linux would show up in the rockbox database, sometimes not. Turns out that many of the music files didn't have ID3 tags. So, in RB I changed it such that I could at least temporarily browse to the files to play them.
So, enter audio tag tool for linux. Excellent tool for updating/modifying ID3 tags en mass. Yet still the files didn't show in the database. I fiddled with various settings in RB to re-initialize, update the database to no avail. Finally I just deleted the database files in the root RB folder, restarted and all was well.
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