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tableguy:
I'm still pretty stumped by this and have been trying to forumalte a question for a day or so. Like I said previously M3U's are in M3U folder: ie Y:\M3U\Rolling Stones
                                                            Y:\M3U\Chicago
                                                            Y:\M3U\Adult Alternative (is a user defined tag in MediaMonkey)



And the files are in Y:\Library\Rolling Stones\Forty Licks\Paint it Black.mp3
                               Y:\Library\Chicago\Chicago's IX Greatest Hits\25 or 6 to 4
                                Adult Alternative which MM finds and transfers over to my IRiver
                                and works great.

So maybe my problem is to find another M3U program, because when I transfer over to Ipod nothing
shows up in the files directory. I can search for them and they are on the Ipod but not in a M3U.

robin0800:
This is a snipit of an m3u playlist

..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\01  Donna.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\02  Rubber Bullets.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\03  The Dean And I.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\04  The Wall Street Shuffle.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\05  Silly Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\06  Life Is A Minestone.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\07  Une Nuit A Paris.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\08  I'm Not In Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\09  Art For Art's Sake.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\10  I'm Mandy Fly Me.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\11  The Things We Do For Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\12  Good Morning Judge.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\13  Dreadlock Holiday.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\14  People In Love.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\15  Under Your Thumb.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\16  Wedding Bells.mp3
..\My Music\Common Music\10cc\The Very Best Of\17  Cry.mp3

this can be saved with any name and extension m3u to the playlist folder on the ipod.
If your m3u is not like the one above there are many programs that can create m3u's fom windows media player onwards.
I prefer foobar 2000 because for me it can do many other tasks
Replay Gain, Rename Files, Rip CD's, tag from the internet and can convert audio files.

tableguy:
I could do that through the database. How do you do it with a mixture of folders and files

frause:
It's kind of hard to understand what exactly you are asking. An .m3u playlist is basically just a list of files with a relative or absolute path.

Maybe you should post one (or a snippet) of your playlists here so we can see if anything is wrong with it.

I have a suspicion the path in the playlist includes something not on the DAP.

Something like your playlist contains:

--- Code: ---Y:\Library\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
Y:\Library\Music\The Rockboxers\Rocking Your Box.ogg

--- End code ---

And the files on your dap are:

--- Code: ---\Music\The Rolling Stones\Paint it Black.MP3
\Music\The Rockboxers\Rocking Your Box.ogg

--- End code ---

Rockbox would then search for the directory 'Library' and not find it. You'd have to replace 'Library\' with '', wich could be done in a text editor.

robin0800:
Foobar can load either files or directories and just pulls all the files out of whaterver your directory structrure is.
Note it dosn't move or copy them just remembers their relative path
and uses this for its playlists etc.

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