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Sansa Playlists
bascule:
--- Quote from: Chronon on September 25, 2007, 11:49:52 AM ---mdouet, it has been pointed out that Winamp supports m3u playlists. I don't understand why you can't save your playlists in the proper format.
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Confirmed from the Winamp site, .m3u8 format is suported since ver 5.3
http://www.winamp.com/player/version-history
So at least a one-off conversion should be possible by re-saving.
And if Winamp has any sort of scripting ability (doesn't everything now?), it should be really easy to batch convert all your playlists at once.
cpchan:
--- Quote from: mdouet on September 25, 2007, 11:24:41 AM ---
How can you say you support Sansa if you don't support their playlist format?
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Rockbox support the hardware, like I said Rockbox is a REPLACEMENT FIRMWARE. Also, have you tried loading a large pla file in the OF? I was floored by how slow it was.
--- Quote ---The only solution you offered me isn't acceptable. I already created playlists in Winamp, I'm not going to recreate them again just so I can play them in RockBox. A more elegant solution would be to have a program that converts between pla and m3u, you have not supplied that solution.
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Huh, I also offered you a canned solution:
--- Quote from: cpchan ---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
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--- Quote ---And I am not the only one experiencing this problem, read the boards, there are several other users having this same issue. I'm a software developer, so if II'm having these types of issues using this firmware, just image what issues a normal user is having.
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Ha ha, the Sansa Rockbox forum that I moderate is a hundred times more busy than the one here and like I said you are the only one that are having problems.
Charles
gratt:
As has been pointed out there is a patch available FS#6884
To convert .pla to m3u/8 and m3u/8 to .pla. I started this before
sound on the sansa and have kept it up to date.
IIRC there is support for iriver playlist conversion in RB.
I very rairly use the sansa OF any longer but when i do
this converter is very helpful to have my RB playlists in the OF.
There are also several 3rd party applications including my perl
Sansa sync and playlist tool available at ABI and the lodist forum.
GRaTT
bluebrother:
just to quote two lines from the top of each source file:
--- Quote --- * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
* KIND, either express or implied.
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And to keep my usual statement: Rockbox is not a product. Period.
If you don't agree with that you should leave now.
--- Quote from: gratt on September 25, 2007, 12:27:00 PM ---IIRC there is support for iriver playlist conversion in RB.
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Iriver uses the same playlist format (m3u) as Rockbox but with different path delimiters. So they do not really use a different format ...
mdouet:
Ok, problem solved!
I wrote a VBSCript that allows me to browse to my PLA files and convert them to M3U files on the fly. All I have to do now is connect my Sansa to my PC and run my program to convert all my playlists and then they will work in RockBox, works like a charm.
I have a few tweaks to make to it, but after it's done I'll post it here in case any other Sansa/RB users are interested.
Once again I think it's pretty sad that I had to write a program to be able to use RB, good thing I'm a Software Engineer or I wouldn't be able to use this firmware at all. :P
--- Quote from: gratt on September 25, 2007, 12:27:00 PM ---As has been pointed out there is a patch available FS#6884
To convert .pla to m3u/8 and m3u/8 to .pla. I started this before
sound on the sansa and have kept it up to date.
IIRC there is support for iriver playlist conversion in RB.
I very rairly use the sansa OF any longer but when i do
this converter is very helpful to have my RB playlists in the OF.
There are also several 3rd party applications including my perl
Sansa sync and playlist tool available at ABI and the lodist forum.
GRaTT
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From what I read that only converts from m3u -> pla which does me no good, I need to go from pla -> m3u. I searched all over and haven't been able to find any program that does this, which is why I had to write my own program.
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