Hello all, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:58:01 -0700 Michael A Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > > > It looks like the playlist parser is expecting an extended m3u format. > > Instead of blank lines, a typical playlist would look like: > > > > #EXTM3U > > #EXTINF:111,3rd Bass - Al z A-B-Cee z > > mp3/3rd Bass/3rd bass - Al z A-B-Cee z.mp3 > > #EXTINF:462,Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy´s song (VNV Nation rmx) > > mp3/Apoptygma Berzerk/Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song (Victoria Mix by VNV Nation).mp3 > > #EXTINF:394,Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song > > mp3/Apoptygma Berzerk/Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song.mp3 > > #EXTINF:307,Apoptygma Bezerk - Starsign > > mp3/Apoptygma Berzerk/Apoptygma Berzerk - Starsign.mp3 > > #EXTINF:282,Various_Artists - Butthole Surfers: They Came In > > mp3/Butthole_Surfers-They_Came_In.mp3 > > > > This is take right from the extended m3u format page at: > > > > http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html > > Unfortunately no - they want the first line after the #EXTM3U to be the > name of the file. > > I've got it figured out for my revision of the device - the .m3u file > MUST be in the directory containing the files it refers to. If it is in > the top level directory then it can only refer to songs in the top level > directory, and not any sub directories. It also freezes the player if > too long (IE with 160 song - about what the player holds - it freezes). > > So I made 4 sub directories with no more than 50 songs each - and each > sub directory has its own playlist that must be in the sub directory - > and it works. > > It might work with all files in the top directory if the playlist is > shorter than all songs, I haven't tried that yet. > > But it seems the playlist behaviour on my device is different from other > peoples devices - like Sansa changed something. > FYI, I could generate playlists for my Sansa Clip (M350) that work fine, using fapq and the -w switch (aka write DOS-format playlist files). See http://royale.zerezo.com/fapg/. Playlists created in Unix file-format don't work. .m3u files created by Audio Tag Tool don't work either (this one writes simple text files w/ a plain list of filenames inside). Regards, -- wwp
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