sandisk sansa m240

[Mark Haney]

Michael A Peters wrote:
> I bought a sansa mdisk 240
> 
> I can not figure out how to get a playlist on it.
> I can get music on it and play the music I get onto it - but not a
> playlist.
> 
> I use a shell script to copy files to it - since my mp3's sometimes have
> very long file names. When they are copied to the sansa they have names
> 
> 001.MP3 002.MP3 etc.
> 
> It does not play them by file name alphabetical order, I can't figure
> out what it does to figure out default play order.
> 
> I tried copying a very basic .m3u playlist to it -
> 
> 001.MP3
> 002.MP3
> 003.MP3
> 
> I can see the playlist in the sansa but it reports no files when I
> select a playlist.
> 
> USB settings are set to MSC
> 
> Has anyone figured out how to get a playlist onto a sansa m240?
> I'm almost wondering if it is something silly like wanting the playlist
> to have DOS line breaks - but before I play around too much, I thought
> I'd ask if anyone else has done it.
> 

I've had success with Amarok putting playlists on my m240.  But I
personally don't use playlists much since I"m using mine mostly for
audio books.


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