I have a 4GB clip, and I tried virtually everything to get m3u playlists to work…absolutely no luck.
I have:
-installed the latest firmware
-edited the m3u files to have relative paths
-experimented with substituting backlashes wis slashes and vice versa
I connect the clip to an ubuntu system.
Any help??? Maybe a sample m3u file that is supposed to work? (I can make the filenames match)
Without playlists, the whole thing is pretty useless to me.
Another thing for the wishlist: Make that volume control more responsive. If a music piece comes up that is too loud, i want *quick* volume response before i blow my ears out. Even better, build the next version with a rotating knob/wheel!! Yeah, that’*s *basic* user-friendliness!!
But if you retain the (cheap) digital up/down volume control, how about *not* putting the on/off switch directly opposite to it on the player, where one is forced to grap the miniature player just trying to adjust the volume?
Uhu. Absolutely basic ergonomics… I know that the competition is often worse, but these few things alone would make me grade this player at a deserved ‘F’.
Don’t hire me. I’d make life miserable for your engineers, and mostly your designers. I would, however, turn out a totally usable product…
But first, check your text editor’s EOL (end of line) character settings as the m3u parser may be looking for CR+LF (0x0D0A)and *nix text files are normally LF (0x0A) terminated…
EDIT: I just verified that UNIX EOL formatted m3us won’t fly, using a copy of a working playlist, saved with UNIX mode EOL.
So if you hand-edited them under Linux (to create the relative paths), the text editor most likely saved it with LF only, and you’re chasing a ghost.
BTW I can “see” the playlist itself on the Clip but it shows “[EMPTY]” when I should see the selection listing…is this what you are experiencing, or something different?
Please share with us the symptoms of your problem!
I tried using playlists through the “Select all”, right click, and “Create playlist” feature, but some of my playlists didn’t display any songs on my Clip. Since I had ID tagged all of my mp3s with MP3Tag before hand, I just use the “Albums” and “Artists” lists to listen to my music. I miss browsing and organizing by folders, but the Clip’s other features are just too good to pass up.
@sriajuda - try searching this forum and the Fuze forum (playlists work the same on both). m3u file defintely work, but as mentioned, they must be standard ASCII/DOS style text files with CRLF line separators. Coming from Linux, it’s likely that your files are Unicode and only have LF.
I have an e280v2 player that I was having problems with getting a .m3u playlist to work also. I finally, after much hair-pulling and more than a little cussing, had success with Winamp. Check out this thread, where I tried to explain what I did and help someone else with the same problem with a Fuze.
The e200 series v2, the Fuze & the Clip all seem to use .m3u playlists vs. the .pla format I was used to on my e260v1 player. Read through the entire thread as my first suggestion (post #9) was slightly incorrect. I tested the procedure and sucessfully created more playlists that worked. I described this in a follow-up post (post #14). Just remember to save your playlist in your MUSIC folder and NOT in your PLAYLIST folder on the player. Yeah, I know, sound kinda counter-intuitive, doesn’t it?
Like I said, I know this works on my e280. Hopefully, it will work for you & your Clip too.
