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Old August 8th, 2007, 04:01 AM
BMboomer BMboomer is offline
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X20 playlists in MSC mode

Hi
I think a lot of people like myself prefer to use MSC ( drag n' drop mode) and they probably are finding that using playlists is a bit buggy.
I have found that it doesn't matter where on the X20 you put a playlist, although making a folder called playlists is conveinient and keeps them all together.
The playlists have to be M3u playlists (Winamp), and opened in Wordpad they should look like this.

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:297,Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
L:\Music\Oz Top 10 Albums\07 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV\01 - Black Dog.mp3
#EXTINF:221,Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll
L:\Music\Oz Top 10 Albums\07 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV\02 - Rock And Roll.mp3

I have used Winamp to make them, by playing a folder from the USB connected X20, in winamp and then saving winamps playlist back to the X20.

I like Advanced Playlist builder best though, available freely from :-
http://www.programurl.com/software-a...wnloadnow.html
In the options under M3u/PLS make sure the "disable Id3 usage" box is not ticked. Then just add files from your X20 to a playlist and save it back to the X20 as an m3u playlist.

The bug that the X20 has, is that when you add new playlists to an X20 that allready has playlists on it, The new ones don't work.
Only playlists that were all added in one USB session, to an X20 that was empty of playlists, will all work.
The work around to make later added playlists work, is to USB connect to a PC, move all playlists off the X20 into a temporary folder on the PC, and then move them all back onto the X20 again, then disconnect properly.
This seems to always work for me, and gets all my playlists working fine.
Hope this helps someone
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