Another playlist topic GO!

[Shockdrop]

OK, I read the manual, and searched here a few times. Should of figured it out by now, but IDK, I guess I'm missing something. All I wanna do, is take my playlists from the original firmware (they are .pla format), and play 'em. I've got that I can't do that, and need .m3u files, Correct? So, I've made m3u files on my computer (WMP11 - New playlist, Save As, .m3u), and synced them. But after multiple times, I've had multiple results: No files found, cant find the files, playlists not playable, and the entire playlist being over in 3 seconds (the songs are obviously much longer). I have looked under every folder I can.

So, pretend I'm a rock, and explain. How do I get my stuff playable, through a playlist, preferably one made using the computer.

I've got a Sansa Fuze, with the latest Sansa Firmware (v1.02.31), and 3.5.1 RockBox.

[saratoga]

Open the playlist you made and see if the paths in it match the locations on your mp3 player.  I'm guessing they don't. 

[evilnick]

You might want to have a read of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

"An M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations of one or more media files that the media player should play. Each location is placed on a new line. The locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., "C:\My Music\Heavysets.mp3" or "Heavysets.mp3") or they can be URLs."

As Saratoga pointed out; unless the directory paths on both your player and your computer match then Rockbox will look at the path specified but be unable to find the file referenced.

[Shockdrop]

OK, thank you. I'll try that. In the meantime, a quick read of the link gives me a desire for a playlist to look at. Would one of you give me a playlist of yours? Not the songs of course, just the file.

[Yotto]

(A very tiny portion of my "all" playlist)

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./o/Offspring/Offspring - Amazed.mp3
./o/Offspring/Offspring - Original Prankster.mp3
./o/Offspring/Offspring - Want You Bad.mp3
./o/Offspring/Smash/Offspring - Bad Habit.ogg
./o/Offspring/Smash/Offspring - Come Out And Play.ogg
./o/Offspring/Smash/Offspring - Genocide.ogg

In my Rockbox, I have a folder, off the root, called "Music". Within that "Music" folder, I have an "o" folder. Within that is an "Offspring" folder, etc.

This file must go in the "Music" folder. The "/" can be "\" if your program creates them (If you're running on Windows) and Rockbox will have no problem figuring it out.

If you want the file somewhere else, you'd have to do something like this:

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/Music/o/Offspring/Offspring - Amazed.mp3
/Music/o/Offspring/Offspring - Original Prankster.mp3
/Music/o/Offspring/Offspring - Want You Bad.mp3
/Music/o/Offspring/Smash/Offspring - Bad Habit.ogg
/Music/o/Offspring/Smash/Offspring - Come Out And Play.ogg
/Music/o/Offspring/Smash/Offspring - Genocide.ogg