I’ve tried using both windows media player and most of the linux varieties as well to try and create playlists on my Sansa Fuze. Finally got so irritated with the problem that I looked into how to do playlists with your every day text editor. I use “vi” and the “unix2dos” utility. Simplistic but it works. On my SD card I found a directory labeled “MUSIC” and under it a second tier of directories including “Music” and “Playlists”. In the “Playlists” directory for each playlist I wanted I had to put two files: playlist_name.pla and playlist_name.pla.refs
The first is an empty file. On linux make it using the standard utility “touch”, i.e. cd to the Playlists subdir and “touch playlist_name.pla”.
for example “touch eurythmics.pla” to make a playlist of eurythmics songs. Then on my host computer I made the file “eurythmics.pla.refs”, ran the utility “unix2dos” on it and then copied it to the “Playlists” directory.
My current “eurythmics.pla.refs” file is:
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/Eurythmics-babys_coming_back.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-here_comes_the_rain_again.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-love_is_a_stranger.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-the_king_and_queen_of_america.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-who_s_that_girl.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-dreams_are_made_of_this.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-i_need_a_man.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-missionary_man.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-when_tomorrow_comes.mp3
/mmc:1:/MUSIC/Music/Eurythmics/eurythmics-would_i_lie_to_you.mp3
NOTE that “mmc:1” refers to the sd card. “/mmc:0:” would refer to the fuze’s main memory.
And that this is a hard coded path. And that was pretty much it. Very simple. I believe but
haven’t tested the theory that the path names can handle embedded blanks. Don’t much
like blanks in general because they screw up a lot of file search and sorting. YMMV.
best regards
