m3u To pla/plp Converter - Free to All

[tman17m]

thanks for this program. i just tried it out and it works great. i just bought the e260 last week. its a really nice mp3 player overall, but the playlist feature was really bugging me. i had a mp3 player that was over 5 years old and would use .m3u playlists just dandy, but this one wouldnt. im glad i can make playlists, as thats pretty much all i use...one for running, driving, partying, ect...

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[sillychilly]

THANK YOU!!!!! I've been trying for weeks to find a playlist editor that works without Media Monkey, and I've finally found it!!! My days of having to deal with the dreaded Go List are over!!!

[workofart14]

thanks for the nifty program! works great so far!

[mitchcd]

i have tried to do all the things listed above all well as i can. i have made m3u playlist in wmp used the m3u fixer and then converted it to a pla. the playlist shows up on my player, but the songs still wont show up. if someone could hep it would be much appreciated.

[chrisl]

First off thanks for taking the time to write the program.
Just got my 280 on Friday and so far I like the unit but playlists are a pain in the A$$.
I've used the program to create the lists. I have to convert one at a time. If I do them all at once it creates empty files with just the header.
My main problem is that after creating the lists they look great but once the I disconnect the unit and it restarts they list all have the same 5 songs in them.

What would be causing that?

[mdscriber3]

This is a GREAT LITTLE PROGRAM! Thanks so much to the creator (TBAFROMCA) for writing this.

It took me a while but I finally got it to work on my E270R (Rhapsody) version. I have my E270R set to Rhapsody Mode. Rhapsody put my files (my mp3s and the Rhapsody files) in the SYSTEM\MUSIC hidden folder.

I created the *.m3u file in Tag & Rename, selecting the Sansa F: disk and having the program find all the music files. I can then select the files from the flat filetree and then have Tag & Rename make the *.m3u for me. I put it in the F:\PLAYLIST directory on the Sansa.

I used the m3u2pla program (9/21/2006 version) to create the *.pla file in the same directory (F:PLAYLIST).

I then had to use the program TEXTPAD (the Creator is right ... NOTEPAD won't work) to go into the *.pla file to edit it and find/replace the following:

..\SYSTEM\Music\

to change to

system\Music\

And then saved the file.

For some reason, it has to read all lower case (system), not (SYSTEM).

I'm so happy I got it to work!!

[test12345678]

Hi! This is an awesome little program that has solved many issues with playlists.

There is only one problem I'm coming across that I wonder if you can help solve with an update.
I have special characters within file names, for example, an é in the name Michael Bublé. The m3u playlists I create in winamp come out fine, but when I convert the m3u playlist into a pla file, the output file (checked within notepad) drops the special character and I get a result like: Michael Bubl. So when I launch the playlist within the Sansa, it doesn't recognize the files, and I've even noticed that the Sansa will delete the missing files out of the playlist by itself.

I don't recall having this problem a few days ago... I just ran a Windows update, with several .NET updates as well, that may have started the issue, I'm not exactly sure. But if there is a way you can update m3u2pla to accept special characters, it would be awesome!

[JWood]

I just used this program for the first time this morning. Thanks for releasing this for other people to use. It converted my .m3u from Winamp to .pla quickly, but the time it takes my e280 to load the playlist is slow. I don't think that's the programs fault tho.

[basti3101]

hi,

i´m new here in this forum, i´m from germany. great thread! great job!

but i´ve got still one problem: the music is not synchronized in the "music" folder on my sansa, just in the root directory!?

any solutions?


greets,
basti


ps: sorry for my bad english

[jasonod]

I am utterly confused. I downloaded your program, followed your instructions- I think- and am still not getting playlists to show up on my e260. I don't think I have my paths defined correctly. Can you please clarify?

jasonod

[sansaUser270]

This works VERY well. I created the M3U files via winamp readying directly from the e270 in MSC mode. Opened the playlists folder with you program and BAM...done in less than 5 seconds. This REALLY makes this player stand out. I enjoy it so much I think I'm going to get the 8gb version and sell this to a friend! Excellent work!

[effyman]

I have finally gotten around to using this as well, and it works perfectly. I will create a playlist in Winamp, let that program shuffle my songs, save it, then let this little program do its thing. This works far better than the players on board shuffle.

[lionel]

thanks, This tool is great!
but I live in Europe and we use special characters regularly (é è à î ... ) .
When I convert the m3u playlist into a pla file, the output file (checked within notepad) drops the special character.
For the moment, i rename the folder, can be in a new version....

[MP3Neo]

Originally Posted by Dom

For anyone who wants to do similar, here's how I did it:

• Put the player in MSC mode and connect it to the PC.
• Open Winamp and select 'add directory' and select the Sansa /music directory.
• Delete all of the non-music files (Winamp's good for this as you can select multiple files easily & quickly).
• Save the playlist from Winamp to your e200's /playlists directory and convert the file with m3u2pla.exe.

Works a charm.

thank you very much! i spend a few hours trying to do multiple playlists (from multiple folders) with other programs but none worked well until i tried this way. i didn't know that i had to do the playlist conversion inside the sansa. i was trying to do it on windows explorer and then sending it to the sansa directory.
now i can finally enjoy my sansa, thanks!

[Zarjaz]

Spent hours trying to get playlists to work with my E270, and then stumbled across your great convertor program. Thanks for solving my problems!

If only Sandisk were interested enough in all the complaints about this issue. My wife has a Samsung player, which allows users to play all music within a single folder on its drive, and very easy creation of playlists on the fly, or from any decent app that has m3u formats.

[TBAFROMCA]

m3u2pla Release Notes
------------------------------------------------------------------------20070107 1.0.2563

Added "New Playlist" button - this is intended for creating new
playlists directly on the player without using any other software.

Right now it just creates a playlist per folder, and optionally
copies the resulting playlist to the \PLAYLISTS folder.

A future version will allow file selection from multiple folders,
but for now this is good enough to let multiple people dump
some songs into their own folder, then easily create a playlist
for them.

[Guitaroooman]

I'm thinking about using this, can anyone tell me if it has been working good for them?

[StretchArm]

Originally Posted by Guitaroooman

I'm thinking about using this, can anyone tell me if it has been working good for them?

I use it all the time with mediamonkey and msc mode. Does exactly what it says.

just tried the new version that creates a play list from a folder on the player. Nice

[gratt]

I have been trying to do playlist for a while in a simple easy way. I found a perl script that worked with V1 tagging on this site and that got me started on these 3 perl scripts. (the sansa does not like V1 tags) sansa-dir2pla.pl takes a directory of mp3 and or wma files and makes a playlist, sorted on the mp3 V2 tags. sansa-m3u2pla.pl converts a name.m3u file to a pla playlist that works with my E260. Used to make plalists from music on the sansa. sansa-syncm3u2pla.pl creates the pla playlist and copies music over that is not already on the sansa. There are lots of comments so easy to customize and all work well now. Requires perl, MP3::Tag and File::Copy::Recursive from CPAN I also found a perl script to make 16bbp pictures out of the ones The Gimp creates in 24bbp. Perl and linux make the world go round. Gratt

[mikeob]

My playlists show up on my computer as being on the Sansa but when uisn the player only the stupid "GoList" shows up. Suggestions? thaks for the converter btw!