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Sansa Playlists
pixelma:
If you're using the plain notepad that comes with winXP, I have a half-educated guess and suggestions for you.
As far as I know, notepad does not support unicode text but only the windows "native" one - the m3u8 files on the other hand are expected to be in in the UTF-8 codepage (I think) so maybe here's the conflict. Rockbox also supports simple m3u files which are not expected to be in UTF-8 (I think), did you try? You could also try copy and pasting in a different editor that supports UTF-8 (e.g. notepad++) but since you are using Winamp...
I would be surprised if Winamp is not able to save your playlists as m3u or m3u8 but I don't use that program myself so can't tell for sure.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: mdouet on September 25, 2007, 09:46:54 AM ---You're wrong, if it were easy I wouldn't be bothering you about this. :P
Here is a file that does work:
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You neglected to tell us what filenames you were using for the playlists themselves.
mdouet:
The files I just listed are both m3u files.
I've tried to use winamp to save my pla files as m3u files, but it doesn't seem to support this.
I'll try to find a unicode supported text editor, you mentioned there is a windows native one, what is its name?
GodEater:
Notepad++
cpchan:
--- Quote from: mdouet on September 25, 2007, 08:58:44 AM ---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.
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Huh, Winamp have m3u support right from the beginning in addition to pls. Actually winamp was the first program to support the m3u format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
--- Quote ---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.
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Rockbox is suppose to be a REPLACEMENT firmware for a number of players. Also there are far more programs that support m3u than pls and pla.
--- Quote ---Anyway, my question is how do I convert my .pla playlists to .m3u playlists so RockBox can read them?
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You can either use an unoffical build that contains the Sansa Playlist convertor plugin, such as mine:
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12583
Or use a playlist converter. Since I don't use Windows, Google is your friend here.
--- Quote ---Does RockBox only support m3u8 files?
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No, it support m3u and m3u8 (unicode) files.
Charles
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