Hi all, I’m at my wit’s end with some playlist problems, that I think might be a series of bugs. If it’s something in my logic, however, please let me know. I’ll explain below, with more details but here are the three basic points:
1) M3U’s and M3U8’s do not behave properly (as they do in the Fuze, on your computer or in say, a PSP) in the Fuze+
2) Rather than flat out not working they act all bizarre, and do show up (so I assume m3u’s are intended to work on the Fuze+)
3) M3U8 Files show a . at the end of the name, probably due to using a trim function to display rather than delimiters.
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So here’s how I encountered the bug(s). I have an microSD card with a number of playlists and files from my Sansa Fuze (v1) that I plugged into my new Sansa Fuze+ hoping it would work. Songs enumerated fine, and all the playlist showed up but the first few I looked into were empty. I figured ok, they did something new and they just won’t work, then I noticed two things: 1) One of my playlists was actually populated. 2) Some of my playlists had an errant period <.> at the end of the name
Regarding item 1) It’s an M3U8 playlist that contains about 530 songs, all of which show up in the playlist on my Fuze. On my Fuze+ only about 117 songs show up in the playlist. Browsing by songs on the Fuze+, to the best I can tell all of the songs are recognized and listed, just not in the playlists. Trying to be cute I made a copy of this file “Drift.m3u8” to “Drift+.m3u8” and the latter did not appear at all in the list (first bug apperantly some characters cause the Fuze+ playlist to not enumerate the playlist file). I then changed it to “Grift.m3u8”
The files “Drift.m3u8” and “Grift.m3u8” are identical except for the name, on the Fuze both list all files, on the Fuze+ Drift lists 117 files and Grift is empty.
Regarding item 2) The m3u8 files don’t show properly. Drift.m3u8 shows up as “Drift” on my Fuze and “Drift.” on my Fuze+. I suspect rather than dropping extensions, the coders trimmed the last 3 characters off the filename to display.
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To do further testing I grabbed an empty microSD card (1 GB / Class 2 card) and put the following layout on it
/—
|- Audible
|- FastJPG
|- Music
| |-Judy And Mary
| | |- Sobakasu.mp3
| | |- Overdrive.mp3
| |-m.o.v.e
| | |- 創聖のアクエリオン.mp3 <–This file has proper kana
|- Podcasts
|———plus_test_nonutf.m3u
|———plus_test_badutf.m3u
|———plus_test_utf.m3u8
The contents on the playlist files are as follow:
plus_test_nonutf.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:252,Judy and Mary - Sobakasu
Music\Judy And Mary\Sobakasu.mp3
#EXTINF:303,Judy and Mary - Overdrive
Music\Judy And Mary\Overdrive.mp3
plus_test_badutf.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:252,Judy and Mary - Sobakasu
Music\Judy And Mary\Sobakasu.mp3
#EXTINF:303,Judy and Mary - Overdrive
Music\Judy And Mary\Overdrive.mp3
#EXTINF:318,m.o.v.e - „“Â}¤Î¥¢¥¯¥¨¥ê¥ª¥ó
Music\m.o.v.e\01.???.mp3 <— this file has junk
plus_test_uft.m3u8
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:252,Judy and Mary - Sobakasu
Music\Judy And Mary\Sobakasu.mp3
#EXTINF:303,Judy and Mary - Overdrive
Music\Judy And Mary\Overdrive.mp3
#EXTINF:318,m.o.v.e - „“Â}¤Î¥¢¥¯¥¨¥ê¥ª¥ó
Music\m.o.v.e\01.創聖のアクエリオン.mp3 <— this file has proper kana
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On the Fuze everything plays/lists as expected (which is to say everything lists except for the 3rd file listed in plus_test_badutf.m3u because the address is junk.)
On the Fuze plus, the playlists are marked as empty, but the songs will play from the song list.
The Playlist Window on the Fuze Displays:
GoList
plus_test_nonutf
plus_test_badutf
plus_test_utf
The Playlist Window on the Fuze+ Displays
Music Go List
My Top Rated
plus_test_nonutf
plus_test_badutf
plus_test_utf
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I figure the Fuze+ is meant to use m3u/m3u8’s or it wouldn’t even list them. If it doesn’t, I could live with it so long as someone could show me a way to transcribe what I have to something that will work on the Fuze+. If people want copies of the Drift.m3u8 and Grift.m3u8 files to help troubleshooting let me know. I figured people wouldn’t care specifically as there are 500 entries in the files and they won’t do much good without enumerating the mp3’s which other people probably don’t have (or don’t have the time to make dummy mp3’s to enumerate). Any help would be grand. If it turns out it’s a bunch of bugs, a fix or work around(to th tune of the m3u conversion) would be grander.
Thanks,
-Kal