Duplicate tracks and internal with external playlist

Okay, I have tried MSC and MTP both and different media manager programs and I am still getting duplications of tracks on the external and internal mem.  This ties in with my difficulties of playlist.  If I load a playlist that has songs on both the internal and external mem to, say the external mem, the programs I have tried want to add the songs on the playlist that are on the internal mem.  The same thing happens the other way if I try to put it on the internal mem.  I have loaded all my music, unplugged the Clip+ so that it can rebuild the data list, then replugged it in to add the playlist after waiting sufficient time for  whatever program I am using to populate its data with the Clip+ data and I still have the same problem.

I know m3u playlists can’t contain tracks in both mem locations since the m3u playlist file must be in the same folder as the tracks.  I have read in the forum that it is possible to have playlists with tracks in both the internal mem and external mem.  How is this done?  What program(s) do I need?  What file extension should the playlist be?  I have been working on this for almost a week.  Loading music as MSC, no luck, reformatting and loading MTP, no luck, reformatting and loading Auto Detect, no luck, back to MTP.  Is it possible I have a defective player?  The only playlist I can get to play music from both the internal mem and external mem is a Go playlist, which I can’t save and rename.  This has gotten me so #&%*)(# frustrated.  If I’m trying to do the impossible then I wish someone would tell me, but like I said I read in this forum that it could be done.  I don’t want tracks duplicated from internal and external mem.  To me that negates the purpose of the micro SD card.  I paid nearly as much for a 16GB micro SD as I did for the Clip+ 8GB.

According to Sansa I am running the latest version of firmware.  Maybe that is the problem and I should go back to an older version.

Please Help!!!

In regards to my earlier post I received this from Sandisk Tech Support today.

"…Please note that there is no software that can transfer a playlist into your Sansa Clip+ that contain songs both from the memory card and the internal memory of the player. Songs from playlist should be either from the memory card or from the player. …

Best regards,
Nelson P.
SanDisk Technical Support"

Oh well.  Maybe in the future.  I’d love someone out there to prove Tech Support wrong.

Orion3 wrote:

In regards to my earlier post I received this from Sandisk Tech Support today.

 

"…Please note that there is no software that can transfer a playlist into your Sansa Clip+ that contain songs both from the memory card and the internal memory of the player. Songs from playlist should be either from the memory card or from the player. …

 

Best regards,
Nelson P.
SanDisk Technical Support"

 

Oh well.  Maybe in the future.  I’d love someone out there to prove Tech Support wrong.

 

 

au contraire

Message Edited by Tapeworm on 03-14-2010 02:20 PM