Creating a MicroSD Playlist with Sansa C200 series?

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Currently, I am creating m3u playlists on my computer and moving the playlist file to a C250 sansa.  

I have found that these playlists work fine with the song files that are on the sansa player.  However, in order to play the song files that are on the MicroSD card, a slightly format different format must be used in the m3u file.    
A "microSD1" tag must be placed in front of every song file that is on the MicroSD card or Rockbox will not recognize the song file (it lists the song as "(ERR)" in the view of the playlist, thus skips it the song)


For example:

If the songfile is on the player a song listing on the playlist has this format:
folder/songfile


If the songfile is on the microsd card a song listing the playlist must have this format in order to play correctly (added microSD1 tag):
microSD1/folder/songfile
 

It is rather cumbersome to edit these m3u files by re-tagging  the specific song files that are on the Micro SD card.

I know the Rockbox's playlist creator accommodates these different tagging formats, but it takes much more time to use than creating a m3u file on my computer.

Is there a quick method or a program that can create a playlist on my computer into a compatible tagging format --> playing from both the files on the MicroSD card and the Rockbox sansa C200 player?

[Falco98]

well, you could just create a playlist file by piping the filenames you want in the playlist into text (such as, "dir /on /b *.mp3 *.ogg > playlist.m3u"), and then use a powerful text editor to go through and replace the relative directory paths with "microsd1" --
so that songs listed like: d:\my music\artist\album\song.mp3
will come out as
microsd1\artist\album\song.mp3

i guess it all depends on what type of playlist you're trying to do.  what playlist are you trying to create that's specific enough that you can't do it with rockbox's internal playlist creator?

BTW, I think your terminology is a bit off... the "microsd1" is not a "tag", it's a directory (aka folder) - since apparently the microsd card on the player is percieved like a folder.  the reason you see "err" without that is because the playlists you're trying to use are pointing to files on the player that don't exist.

[Rusty_Shackleford]

The "microSD1" is actually in dual brackets (can't use dual brackets symbol here posting...it will not show up in the reply) .  
You are correct though, "microSD1" is a directory/folder.

The rockbox's internal playlist creator is fine but it takes much more time than creating a playlist using the computer with a playlist creator...drop, drag, press create, copy M3U to Sansa playlist folder (if the songs are already on the Sansa).

I guess editing the text of the playlist is a small extra step.  It is a workaround solution that will still probably be much quicker than using rockbox's internal playlist creator.  Thanks for the input on that one.  It works like a charm.

Still looking for a single-step solution. If anyone has one, please let me know.

[robin0800]

Perhaps the best thing to do is to write a feature reqest for the rockbox playlist system to search "microsd1" or whatever as well as the player.
This would only be needed on players that supported Extra cards.