On 7/14/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I've replaced my trusty Samsung MP3 player with a Sansa Clip, however I'm > having major grief trying to get playlists to work. > > They claim to be 'M3U' compatible; whatever I try it can see the list, but > claims that it is empty.... > > Anyone got it working under Linux, and if so can you send my an example > off list? > > Simon.
I had quite a few problems with my Sansa, and never tried M3U playlists (or playlists at all, for that matter.) The main issues I had were: - Filenames starting with a space character (auto-generated filenames from downloading shoutcast streams.) The player would say there's a file there, but it wouldn't be able to play it. - Even though I verified ID3v1 tags were there for files, they would still show up as unnammed :-( I still use my Sansa, but I don't even bother trying to get anything working that's more advanced than just playing files... and even then it's not very good. The fast-forward sucks... 15 seconds every 2 seconds??? that's terrible when you're trying to fast-forward to the middle of a 2 hour file. It's worse with video... it's a pain to watch an hour long talk (from Defcon, for example,) in multiple sittings, because it always starts playback from the beginning, and it takes forever to fast forward again, arg! Anyway... to get back on topic... make sure you are using the most basic form of M3Us, filenames, and ID3s, and go from there. If possible, try getting it working on a Windows system, and just copy what Windows did. I also had to upgrade the firmware before the ID3 tags worked for me (under Linux.) -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
