OK, m3u playlists do work on the Clip if you have all your ducks in a row. Even a perfect playlist takes time for the player to process, and a long one can take several long seconds. I thought up another way to do this that may work for some people. This is how to do it using mp3tag v2.39, and I’m sure it can be done w/at least a few other apps or Winamp plug-ins:
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Create your m3u playlist as always
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Open mp3tag, goto File -> Open Playlist/Cue Sheet
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Browse to your playlist, select it and open it:
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If it’s a good playlist, it should open in mp3tag’s main window, w/songs in order.
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Select all the songs: (Ctrl-A) or Edit -> Select all files
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Open the auto-numbering wizard: (Ctrl-K) or Tools -> Auto-numbering wizard
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A little dialog will pop-up, click OK and it will number your track tags
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In the panel on the left, click in the album field
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Type in a name for the album, such as “My Mix” or whatever
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Click the save file button on the toolbar (very 1st button)
You can probably guess the rest:
Now you can browse to this “album” on your player and it will play the songs in order, exactly like a playlist would!
You can also see the drawbacks to this method:
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id3 tags were altered on these files, which is OK by me if I’m just going to delete them from the player after I’ve heard them
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You can’t see the “real” album name anymore, since you obliterated it!
(on the plus side, it was replaced by “My Mix” or whatever, which may appeal to some people) -
It’s still time-consuming, but not as bad as it sounds.
If those few things don’t bother you, try it out and you’ll find it’s less stressful to the player than having it process a long m3u file and you can get to your music quicker. I hope to automate at least some of this in a VB.Net program: possibly start on it this weekend and finish it by sometime in 2009!
Message Edited by ocsirf on 12-07-2007 06:20 AM
Message Edited by ocsirf on 12-07-2007 06:23 AM
