This took a ridiculous amount of trial and error and looking for clues in this forum, but I finally managed to sync playlists onto my Clip Zip’s sdhc card using Media Monkey. This is what worked for me – I make no promises that it will work for anyone else.
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First, make sure you are able to sync to your card at all. I had to try three different cards before I found one that worked with my device. Fortunately, my Sansa Fuze and my phone were less picky, so I had different cards to try. The one that worked was a Sandisk 16GB Micro SDHC, Class 2. If you can’t even sync music, the problem may be your card.
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Downgrade your firmware to version clipzip01.01.12. I could not get it to work with the current version.
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Open Media Monkey. (The basic version is free.)
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Connect your device. The device should show up in the tree in the left-hand column of the page. The device and card will be listed as two separate devices. Click on the listing for the card.
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Media Monkey should take you to a Summary page. In at the top of the center cection of the screen, click the “Auto-Sync list” and select the playlists you want to sync.
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Under options, click “Playlists”.
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Check box next to “Sync playlists.”
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Under “Generate device Playlists for”, click “Library Playlists.”
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Under Destination directory, enter “Music\Playlists”. (No quotation marks.)
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Check box next to “Force relative paths.” Leave other boxes (e.g., “use unicode …”, “use extended M3U”, “Use Linux folder separator”) unchecked.
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Click “Apply” to save your changes.
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Right-click on the device and select “Auto-sync” to start syncing.
Unfortunately, playlists that were more than 1,000 songs were cut off at the 1000th song, but otherwise, it worked great!
I hope this helps somebody out there.