Need help with making playlists!

[Confused]

I have the Sansa m230 MP3player. I have songs I've sync from my computer onto my device. I can put them into my favorites but don't know how to create a playlist of certain songs like for Country, Rock or Sensual songs. I have playlists created in Windows Media but how do I get a playlist onto my device. Everytime I look in Playlist it says No Files!! It has to be something real simple I'm missing.

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[jamski]

Originally Posted by Confused

I have the Sansa m230 MP3player. I have songs I've sync from my computer onto my device. I can put them into my favorites but don't know how to create a playlist of certain songs like for Country, Rock or Sensual songs. I have playlists created in Windows Media but how do I get a playlist onto my device. Everytime I look in Playlist it says No Files!! It has to be something real simple I'm missing.

WMP is a fine piece of software for what it does...rip and play music. But here's what you really need, a utility specifically created for modifying tags and creating playlists. Meet mp3tag. It's a little jewel and no serious mp3 afficianado should be without it. Best of all, it's dead simple to use...and it's free.

[Confused]

Originally Posted by jamski

WMP is a fine piece of software for what it does...rip and play music. But here's what you really need, a utility specifically created for modifying tags and creating playlists. Meet mp3tag. It's a little jewel and no serious mp3 afficianado should be without it. Best of all, it's dead simple to use...and it's free.

Now, I can make playlist in both WMP and Rhapsody. But when I sync them to my MP3 player it just puts them on there. It doesn't put them into a playlist such as Country or the Rock playlists I have. Would the mp3tag one do that? Or is it maybe just my MP3 player that won't do it?

Thanks for your help!

[jamski]

IMO mp3tag is much better for making playlists than WMP. You just select the files you want on the list by control-clicking them, then go to File--Playlist (selected files). You'll get a dialog prompting you to name the playlist; by default it shows up as:

E:\mp3tag.m3u

with E being whatever drive letter your PC assigns to your Sansa. Now, just chance the "mp3tag" part of the name to whatever you want the list named, say:

E:\Techno Megablast.m3u

and click Okay. The playlist should show up as "Techno Megablast" under the Play Music--Playlist menu on your Sansa the next time you start it up.

Of course, this also comes in handy with the "unknown artist" glitch...I regularly store 200+ songs on my m240, and as a result I will get a couple of "unknowns". All I do is create playlists for the albums the "unknowns" belong to, and play those instead of selecting the album as you normally would. Works like the proverbial charm.

[Confused]

I sent you a pm but another question. When I pick the songs I want for my playlist and then go to File---playlist(selected files) it show up as C:/Documents and settings etc..... it's not showing E: which is for the drive for Sansa! What am I doing wrong?

[Confused]

Okay, I figured out a few things I think! I hooked my Mp3 player and then saw all the songs I have. I selected the ones I wanted and named it and hit okay. But then checked my Mp3player and went to Play music then Playlist and it stills says No Files. What else do I need to do?

[Confused]

I got it to work!!!! I didn't know you needed to put .m3u behind the name I made for the playlist. Now I have my playlists!!!