GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 609488
Sansa Fuze playlists requires relative pathnames in playlists
Last modified: 2012-05-05 18:22:14 UTC
After creating playlists in Banshee, you sync a Sansa Fuze player. Banshee creates the playlists on the Fuze, but when you try to access them on the Fuze, the playlists are empty. Banshee creates a .m3u file for each playlist, and puts those files in the /MUSIC folder on the Fuze. In the file, each song has the following syntax: /MUSIC/artist_name/album_name/song_name.mp3 The playlists appear empty for two reasons: 1) The Fuze requires relative pathnames. By putting the playlists in the /MUSIC folder, and beginning each song's path with /MUSIC, the Fuze can't find the files. 2) The Fuze requires a backslash, not a forward slash, as the delimiter. So, the correct syntax for a playlist entry would be: artist_name\album_name\song_name.mp3 I have verified this fix by manually editing a playlist created by Banshee. With BOTH of the above changes, songs now appear in the playlists. I'm hoping these changes could be incorporated into Banshee, so that playlist syncing works automatically. Thanks!
I can confirm this same behavior on the sansa clip. Manually editing the playlist file (.m3u) works, but in that case, why not just use another program to build the playlist (easytag works, I think)...
Thanks for your bug report. (In reply to comment #0) > 2) The Fuze requires a backslash, not a forward slash, as the delimiter. That is reported as bug 587964 (next time, please report one bug per issue). We'll leave the bug open for the relative-paths issue.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 560711 ***