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Sansa e250 playlist help
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Kiki05
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16. January 2007 @ 20:10 |
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Ok Heres the Deal. I just Downloaded the New Windows Media Player it looks Cool but it is just not working with my Sansa..Before i installed this i had WMP 9 and all i had to do was right click and delete my songs or create a list of songs i wanted to sync to my device. Now I can't delete songs i right click them and click delete..and they appear to be deleted on the Windows player BUT in my mp3 player they are still there..the songs i sync dont show up on my player and im beginning to get frustrated can somebody PLEASE help me?
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arch85
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20. January 2007 @ 00:51 |
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okay guys -- another countless set of hours and i'm finally done!
http://www.ridesforall.com/archit/sansaitunes/index.html
I have added the scripts/program for PCs that you can use to sync your Sansa e-series mp3 player with iTunes.
PC version is more advanced than the Mac version but i'll bring it up to date shortly (once I get more time on my hands).
Hope this helps some of you out :)
- Archit
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wongdong
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20. January 2007 @ 05:32 |
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Boah Archit, i just had a look at your application and i must say, i'm impressed. Looks like far more work than just a "script" as you mentioned.
Anyway, nice work, keep it up.
Cheers, Christian
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arch85
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20. January 2007 @ 06:42 |
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haha,
Thanks Christian :)
Yeah, took me a loooooonnngg time but 's ok -- I got it done :) and a special thanks to you for revealing the secret of how Playlists work on these players to me :)
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seanpr123
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26. January 2007 @ 11:22 |
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Originally posted by arch85:
haha,
Thanks Christian :)
Yeah, took me a loooooonnngg time but 's ok -- I got it done :) and a special thanks to you for revealing the secret of how Playlists work on these players to me :)
Has the secret been revealed in this thread or is there still something Im missing. I didn't quite know how to edit the files in the hex editor and add in the 0s (I think it was 0s).
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arch85
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26. January 2007 @ 16:19 |
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It has been long solved man ...
You're supposed to add Hex(00) after each character ... I'm not sure how you would do it using a text editor; I wrote my scripts in C# and AppleScript so it was much different.
The hex value 00 (which is a null character) needs to be inserted after each character; not sure how you'd do it.
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lace662
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3. February 2007 @ 08:57 |
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hello guys!
I have some (big) trouble with my sansa e250.
I tried to put a playlist onto my player using the threads in this forum. I updated my firmware, tried out MediaPlayer and Winamp, but it did not work. So I deleted all mp3 files manualy on my player. After that one folder couldn´t be deleted, so I tried to format the player. Also this didn´t work.(message: formating could not be completed).I also tried that recovery-mode, but nothing happened.(last message: "...enter MSD MODE" !?!?)
finally I tried to put on new files, but now windows message:"The file may not exsist or being used by another program." appears and no files are copied.
what happened? please help me!
lace662
ps: sry for my poor english
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lace662
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3. February 2007 @ 09:44 |
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all right.
I should read all threads line by line and follow all external links first. I solved my problem using the "chkdsk /f" tool. I´m sorry.
Now I also tested the playlist creating tool. It´s creat stuff. thanks a lot!
lace662
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pedro479a
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16. February 2007 @ 12:08 |
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Hello, I am new to this site/thread. I just got this player and bought one for my kid. I will try the suggestions here for getting the play lists.
My player died when I first got it. The screen locked up and the blue ring stayed on. First thing in FAQ in the manual was 15 second time on button for reset. It worked. Then I remembered to down load firmware on new item. My kids player had the latest firmware already installed, mine did not. Info for all or you, no problems here.
Question: What happens if you have more songs on WMP than can fit onto the Sansa and try to synchronize?
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yoyojedi
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20. February 2007 @ 16:41 |
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Hi I'm having an unusual problem with my new sansa e200. I have multiple music files on it and I have tried looking all over the internet on how to delete multiple music files and nothing has worked. I am able to see the hidden music folders and able to open them and delete things in them but when I disconnect my e200 and boot it up again there they are again like I havent done anything and I have wasted several hours deleting files only to be aggravated when they reappear. Please someone help me before I chuck this thing out the window or take a hammer and break it into a million pieces.
size matters not ( yoda to luke )
when are you earthlings gonna learn that the size of something doesn't matter ( frank the dog )
its impossible to lick your elbow, 75% of the people who read this will try to do it.
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arch85
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20. February 2007 @ 19:38 |
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Originally posted by yoyojedi:
Hi I'm having an unusual problem with my new sansa e200. I have multiple music files on it and I have tried looking all over the internet on how to delete multiple music files and nothing has worked. I am able to see the hidden music folders and able to open them and delete things in them but when I disconnect my e200 and boot it up again there they are again like I havent done anything and I have wasted several hours deleting files only to be aggravated when they reappear. Please someone help me before I chuck this thing out the window or take a hammer and break it into a million pieces.
haha, well you're an angry one :) here, read this -- this should be able to solve your issues:
http://ridesforall.com/archit/sansaitunes/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=9
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nympherah
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23. March 2007 @ 18:08 |
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I tried deleting song files manually once, and now I can't get the artist and album info off, but the songs are gone. Any way I can fix this?
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fates_eye
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5. April 2007 @ 17:50 |
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Alright, I've been going through this for a while, read all the posts and found the solution, here it is:
1) Switch settings from msc->mtp
2) shut off mp3 player
3) plug in to pc
4) create playlist with wmp (i used version 11)
5) right click playlist title and add to synch list
6) synch it (i used manual though I don't think that matters
That's what I did, and it worked golden, thanks for the previous posts that helped me figure it out, :)
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Squirt007
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9. April 2007 @ 11:16 |
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Originally posted by fates_eye:
Alright, I've been going through this for a while, read all the posts and found the solution, here it is:
1) Switch settings from msc->mtp
2) shut off mp3 player
3) plug in to pc
4) create playlist with wmp (i used version 11)
5) right click playlist title and add to synch list
6) synch it (i used manual though I don't think that matters
That's what I did, and it worked golden, thanks for the previous posts that helped me figure it out, :)
Yup, that works! I actually read it in the User Guide (Sansa e200) at the SanDisk website. The lame thing is that I have the Rhapsody version from BestBuy and in THAT User Guide (Sansa e200R) it only tells you how to set up playlists with the BestBuy software. But, after looking at the plain ol' Sansa e200 Guide, it gives the exact steps mentioned above. Oh, you might have to restart your Sansa afterwards for the settings to take effect.
NOW..........
I have a question, how can I erase the Playlists that came with my Sansa e200R? I erased the files in Explorer, but when I start the Player, those playlists are still there - except all of their corresponding songs are dimmed out because I never subscribed to Rhapsody and I erased all of their songs from the Player.
Basically, I want to erase all traces of Rhapsody stuff on the Player. Thanks for any help.
UPDATE:
Ok, I got it. I just formatted - like described in this thread early on - and it worked. All my ghost files are gone.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. April 2007 @ 12:27
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Squirt007
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9. April 2007 @ 11:22 |
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Oops, I forgot one more thing.
When I transfer files from WMP 11 to my Sansa, the album cover art does not get transferred even though on my computer, those files have a cover art associated with them in the ID3 tag.
How can I do it so that the covert art appears on my Sansa?
UPDATE:
I just figured it out. I need to have the file "album art.jpg" in the folder so that the Sansa player will show it when playing the song. Bummer that it doesn't automatically get transferred when synchronizing with WMP 11.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. April 2007 @ 12:26
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seanpr123
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9. April 2007 @ 13:20 |
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folder.jpg works also
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Squirt007
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13. April 2007 @ 06:57 |
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Originally posted by wongdong:
Hey there, i wrote a program that creates Playlists from the directory structure of your e200 series player, without fiddling around wit all that stupid media player stuff...
Download it at http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/cp/playlist_creator.zip
if you want, its free ;-)
cheers
Nice litte script, but it does not create playlist form my microsd card. The card is recognized by explorer as drive R and I dragged music folders into it. But, like I said, your script tells me that nothing (no music) was found on the card (even though I selected R as the card's drive letter).
UPDATE: I just created a folder in my MicroSD card called "Music" and I dragged and dropped all my other folders into it. Then I tried again and your script worked. I didn't know that the music folders in the card had to be inside of one big "Music" folder. I don't know why I thought about trying it that way, but I'm glad it works now. Thanks for writing that script. It's pretty handy.
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wongdong
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13. April 2007 @ 07:25 |
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Hi there. The thing is i don't have a mini SD card :) But is there a music folder on your card? (R:\music\). That is where the playlists are created from. If it doesn't work, i will have a look at the code, maybe there's a bug i didn't see in the first place.
And is your SD drive letter subsequent to the original drive? (is Q your player?)
cheers, Christian
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arch85
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13. April 2007 @ 07:33 |
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Hi Christian,
I think the problem might be as to how Sansa looks at the additional memory from the SD card -- does it look at it as a new 'drive' or just additional memory?
Because the playlists on the internal memory of the player are created using \\Music (if I remember correctly ... been a while). So I think we just need to figure out how the reference is passed when the Music is on the external drive.
Maybe someone who has an SD card can try it out and tell us?
--- Sync the player using Windows Media Player 10 or Rhapsody or whatever you can use and try putting songs onto the external card.
--- Put the player in MSC mode and open the second drive (one is for the Sansa's internal memory other is for the SD card)
--- Let us know what folders you see and what files are within those folders.
That would be a great help to both myself as well as Christian so we can modify our scripts accordingly ...
Thanks guys!
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Squirt007
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13. April 2007 @ 07:37 |
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Oops, well as you can see, my "update" from my last post has exactly what Christian talked about in the post following it. I guess we were both posting at the same time. :)
thanks guys for your help and input.
EDIT: and for arch85 or those who were wondering...
In a playlist, the reference to the sansa is "HARP, " while the one for the SD card is "SDMMC, " which I assume stands for SD Micro Media Card.
Before I figured out my actual problem, I had gone around it by running Christian's script directly inside my SD card and creating the playlists inside the card itself. Then I used notepad to edit each playlist and replaced HARP, with SDMMC, and then I copied those playlists into the Sansa playlist folder. Yeah, I know, big dork way around, but it worked. Then when I tried the script again (this time from the sansa drive) out of curiosity it recognized the SD card since I previously had created that "Music" directory in the SD card when I ran the script from that. So, that's actually how I figured out that a "Music" directory was needed. Ok, bla bla bla bla. It works now and I've learned something. Those two things are always a plus!
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arch85
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13. April 2007 @ 07:41 |
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swweeeeeett!! thx bud
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wongdong
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13. April 2007 @ 07:43 |
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Hehe, well my script should do it, i asked darren to put a song from his sd card on the go list and send it to me and the entry looks like:
SDMMC, MUSIC\Jennifer Knapp\Lay It Down\02 Lay It Down.mp3
So it's just the prefix that changes and of course the MUSIC folder must be there...
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Squirt007
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13. April 2007 @ 07:49 |
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Originally posted by wongdong:
Hehe, well my script should do it, i asked darren to put a song from his sd card on the go list and send it to me and the entry looks like:
SDMMC, MUSIC\Jennifer Knapp\Lay It Down\02 Lay It Down.mp3
So it's just the prefix that changes and of course the MUSIC folder must be there...
hehe - yup - see my "edit" two posts above. I am now a happy Sansa camper.
BTW - I like Jennifer Knapp :)
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Eggwin
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22. May 2007 @ 02:24 |
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The cleanest method I found for creating Playlists on my Sansa 250 player is to:
1) Save all of your music files from your MP3 on to your hard drive
2) Download the latest firmware from Sansa if it hasn't automatically done so yet. If so; format the device(this will give you a fresh start)
3) On your Sansa; select SETTINGS-USB-AUTO DETECT not [MSC mode]
4) Plug in your player
5) Open Windows Media Player (I'm using ver 11)
6) Click on the top SYNC pulldown button to take you to the SYNC screen
7) On the top Left; click CREATE PLAYLIST and name your new playlist
8) Below that; Click Library and find the location of your music folder(s)
9) Double click the folder you want to open and either select individual songs or in any blank space by the music files; hold down your right click button and drag to select multiple songs then drop them into your Newly created Playlist icon
Here's the cool part...
1) Drag and drop the Playlist icon to the Sync List on the right
2) Click the SYNC pulldown button on the top bar and click on your player name and ADVANCED OPTIONS
3) Under the QUALITY Tab; Select maximum quality level [second choice]- SMALLEST SIZE (64Kbps)
This will DOUBLE your player capacity by converting them from MP3's to WMA files without any noticeble sound quality loss [ergo "the cool part"]
No magic here--press START SYNC and let it do it's thing...Egg
PS Note the location of temp files in the WMP 11-SYNC-MORE OPTIONS-ADVANCED buttons to clear out temp files when you're all done Syncing...
Zippy the Pinhead
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k3nsh1n
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4. June 2007 @ 09:33 |
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Can't ENJOY. I have the latest version of Rhapsody, and im able to only create ONE Playlist. I already changed the properties of the SYSTEM directory, but still, i can't make any other playlist
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