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Sansa Playlists
mdouet:
How do I go about getting my sync'ed playlists to show up in Rockbox? I read somewhere that you need the playlist in a m3u format, but I tried creating one using a text editor, but when I load it it gets "Err" for each file found in the playlist when I select "View Current Playlist" after selecting the playlist under "Playlist Catalog". What am I doing wrong?
Rockbox is pretty useless if I can't even use my sync'd playlists.
cpchan:
--- Quote from: mdouet on September 25, 2007, 01:29:53 AM ---How do I go about getting my sync'ed playlists to show up in Rockbox?
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Synced with what? You also did not specify the Operating System you are using for people to recommend programs. By the sound of things you are using Windows, try MediaMonkey:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
There are many programs that can write m3u files since it is a standard playlist format.
--- Quote ---I read somewhere that you need the playlist in a m3u format, but I tried creating one using a text editor, but when I load it it gets "Err" for each file found in the playlist when I select "View Current Playlist" after selecting the playlist under "Playlist Catalog". What am I doing wrong?
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Please upload a sample.
--- Quote ---Rockbox is pretty useless if I can't even use my sync'd playlists.
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Why?
Charles
mdouet:
Sorry for leaving out the specifics, here's more info...
I am using Winamp on Windows XP to sync my playlists to my Sansa e280, the problem is Winamp creates .pla files which apparently RockBox can't read. If RockBox is supposed to support Sansa, how come it doesn't support its playlist format? The reason I said RockBox is useless without the ability to use playlists I sync to my device is because without access to my playlists it is very tedious to listen to my music.
Anyway, my question is how do I convert my .pla playlists to .m3u playlists so RockBox can read them? I tried editing one of my .pla, stripping off all the data except the path to the files and changing the '\'s to '/'s and saving the file in the Playlists directory. The new playlist shows up in "Playlist Catalog", but when I select it and go to "View Current Playlist" it shows "Err" for each file. Here is an example of a m3u file I created that did not work:
--- Code: ---/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/106 - Diggnation - July 12, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/107 - Diggnation - July 19, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/108 - Diggnation - July 26, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/109 - Diggnation - August 2, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/110 - Diggnation - August 9, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/111 - Diggnation - August 16, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/122 - Diggnation - Aug 23, 2007.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/113 - Diggnation - The Sensitive Episode.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/114 - Diggnation - Back in LA.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/115 - Diggnation - Time to leave home.mp3
/MUSIC/Revision3/Diggnation (Mp3)/116 - Diggnation - Kevin's Big Announcement.mp3
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I did a little experiment last night and created a dynamic playlist in Rockbox and saved the playlist, it saved it as a m3u8 file in the root directory, when I moved this file to the playlists directory I was able to load it from the catalog with no problems, the weird part is that the format was the same as what I had done for the m3u files that didn't work. Does RockBox only support m3u8 files?
bascule:
Is it a line-endings problem (Windows-style CR/LF vs Unix-style LF-only)?
mdouet:
I'm not sure what you mean, can you clairfy? I created the file in notepad.
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