How to organize music

MP3 players Sansa Clip | Clip+
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I bought a Sansa mp3 and am totally clueless how to organize the music I added.  I didn’t understand how to do itat the beginning so I began to move songs to the device via the computer (not on Windows Media Player) and I ended up with a running list of 70 songs in alphabetical order!  I still haven’t figured out WMP but I did discover that I could move folders (holding albums) to the mp3 device, so some of my songs are organized but I don’t know how to delete / get rid of the list of 70 songs which are hogging all my memory.

Should I reformat the mp3 player and begin all over? I could delete the list of songs but I don’t want to delete each individually.    I have all the songs on my computer so there won’t be any problem reloading them.  I just don’t want to do something that will “screw up” the mp3 player.

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Thanks for the information.  When I first got the device, that’s how I put the music on - dragging songs but then something happened to the connection between the device and the computer a few days later.  I tried to drag music to the device and the process never stopped.  I just couldn’t transfer any media.  I went back to the store and they changed my USB settings to something else and then I couldn’t add anything.  The device seems to screw up my computer (Windows 7) and makes it freeze up.  Do you think that something happened to the device?

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Does it make sense that it takes 10 minutes to download one song?  I tried to drag an album with 7 songs and gave up after 10 minutes. (I had reformatted the device so it was empty.)  When I checked the device, only one song had been transferred and then my computer froze and I had to restart.

This is a new device so there’s a warrantee.  Maybe I should just send it to be checked?  There just seems to be a real problem of communication with my computer.

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I followed your instructions and a miracle happened! I can drag files and in seconds move them to the player.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Hopefully I won’t encounter any more problems.

Is there a thread that explains the ID tags that you mentioned in an earlier post?  I was so involved in getting the device to work that I didn’t realize that I don’t exactly know what you mean.

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I just ordered a Sansa Clip.   I have had Sansa Connect and a Sansa.  When yhou play  the music on shuffle you hear, music, podcast, and audiobooks.  Are you saying that with the Sansa Clip there are seperate folders for each and that you can shuffle the music without als playing the audiobooks and podcast?

Thank you

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@cliff wrote:

I just ordered a Sansa Clip.   I have had Sansa Connect and a Sansa.  When yhou play  the music on shuffle you hear, music, podcast, and audiobooks.  Are you saying that with the Sansa Clip there are seperate folders for each and that you can shuffle the music without als playing the audiobooks and podcast?

 

Thank you

From what I hear about shuffling on the fuze and the clip+, shuffle all will not include anything in the Audiobooks nor Podcasts folders.  I’m guessing that the same is true for the original clip.

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@mags1230 wrote:

@cliff wrote:

I just ordered a Sansa Clip.   I have had Sansa Connect and a Sansa.  When yhou play  the music on shuffle you hear, music, podcast, and audiobooks.  Are you saying that with the Sansa Clip there are seperate folders for each and that you can shuffle the music without als playing the audiobooks and podcast?

 

Thank you

 True.

 

From what I hear about shuffling on the fuze and the clip+, shuffle all will not include anything in the Audiobooks nor Podcasts folders.  I’m guessing that the same is true for the original clip.

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I went through all that ■■■■ with the program freezing up and all that. I finally wnet into WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER and used the “SYNC” option. I just dragged and dropped albums/artists, and IT WORKED just dandy!!!  Ok, so this is great, and I went into the flash drive and created a bunch of A through Z folders, and just dragged all the stuff to the right alphabetical folder. NOW, to get the stuff to play in correct order, I renamed all the artists by their LAST NAME (like changing Bryan Adams to Adams, Bryan) and put it under the MUSIC-B folder. I am used to seeing things that way. This flash drive I use in my truck and it all works great until you want to play something from the MUSIC-P folder… Then you have to keep hitting the “forward” button 50 fifty times to get past everything else. I have tried EVERYTHING including subfolders of subfolders, etc. in order to try and make it so I can simply hit the “forward” button and bypass everything I want to, but nothing works… Anyone out there got any bright ideas???

p.s. my email is crazybones888@gmail.com. thanks

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I have the original sansa 260e …NOT the CLIP …Do you know how i can organize  my songs on this model…Also this original model does not have aa delete eature when i try to delete the songs from the computer (windows 7) it only sends the song into the recyclyling bin not from  the device.

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Sorry for the typo’s in the last post…:I have the original sansa 260e …NOT the CLIP …Do you know how i can organize  my songs on this model…Also this original model does not have a delete feature when i try to delete the songs from the computer (windows 7) it only sends the song into the recyclyling bin not from  the device.

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First, see if your firmware is up to date.

Go to Settings/System Settings/Info and look at your firmware version. It should be 1.02. 24 or 3.01.16. If it is, skip the next chunk.

If it starts with 1, you have a version 1 player. If it starts with 3, you have a version 2 player. Those are two different pieces of hardware even though they look alike.

Look at this link and use Method 2, way down, to update the firmware. Don’t install the updater (Method 1)–it’s useless now for such an old device.

http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/306

If your version starts with 1, download the version 1 software, if it’s 3 download version 2.

OK, firmware in place.

All Sansas work alike. There are two ways of getting music onto the player–MSC, which sees the player as a basic flash drive, or MTP, which controls the player via Windows Media Player. 

That is set through Settings/System Settings/USB Mode on the player. If it is Auto Detect then it goes to MTP, since you have Windows 7 with Windows Media Player included. WIndows Media Player should be organizing your files if that is what you have been using.  It has its own weird, illogical ways of naming things but it can find them that way.

The player lists songs from information in ID3 tags, electronic labels inside the files for Artist, Album, etc. WMP should have those in order.

If you want to start again in a human-readable way, and you have all your music backed up elsewhere, then clean off the device, set it to MSC and do things manually.

Settings/System Settings/Format will wipe your content off the unit.

Change Settings/System Settings/USB  mode to MSC. When you connect you will see two disc drives, X: Sansa E200 (or something like that) and Y: Removable disc for the card in the MicroSD slot (whether or not you have one inserted). I’m using X: and Y: as examples–it might be F: and G:, or two other letters.

Drag and drop whatever folders you want onto the unit. You can put them in a Music folder or just drag them onto whatever driveletter the unit is. It actually doesn’t matter to the unit because it finds the music files and reads their tags, whatever folder they are in (except for Audiobooks, Photos and Podcasts, which behave a little differently–don’t put music in those). 

The unit should read the tags and organize them by Artist, Album, etc.

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@ppehs wrote:

_ I have the original sansa 260e …NOT the CLIP … _

Then why are you posting in the Clip | Clip+ board instead of in the All Other MP3 Players board as you should be? :confounded:

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Thanks for your input, but I’m still missing one critical piece. How do you work with Playlists? I’m using a Mac, with VOX to create playlists (m3U). I can drag and drop the music into folders into “Music” on the Sansa (Clip Sport), but what do I do with the playlist file that was created? All of my music is on a 32GB external card and not on the Sansa’s internal memory. 

So I’m dealing with 4 elements: 1. Internal memory, external memory, music folders, and playlist files. Can you please advise me as to what is the best way to go, and where do I transfer the various files described.

Thanks a lot.

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The Clip Sport is different and has its own board. Start a thread there. 

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-Clip-Sport/bd-p/clipsport