<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>How to make playlists on the SanDisk Clip Sport on Linux - Archive - MayVaneDay Studios</title> <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> <meta name="author" content="Vane Vander"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> </head> <body class="mayvaneday"> <article> <div class="box"> <p><h1>How to make playlists on the SanDisk Clip Sport on Linux</h1></p> <p>published: 2019-08-13</p> </div> <hr> <div class="box"> <ol style="list-style-type: decimal"> <li>Make a playlist with the songs you want in VLC.</li> <li>Save said playlist as an .m3u file. (Other playlist file types will not work.)</li> <li>Make a copy of said playlist file. Open it up in a text editor of your choice.</li> <li>Remove all the lines that start with "#EXTINF".</li> <li>Using the find-replace function, change the following strings:</li> </ol> <p>Whatever the path to your main music folder on your computer is, starting with "file:///", to "\Music". For example, the path to my main music library is <code>file:///mnt/Hell3/Music/Music Archive/Popular</code>. (My music is sorted into "Popular", "Soundtrack", and "Vaporwave".)</p> <p>"%20" to " " (that is, a space).</p> <p>"/" to "\".</p> <ol start="6" style="list-style-type: decimal"> <li>Change the end-of-line markers to the DOS/Windows version.</li> </ol> <p>Open a terminal and <code>cd</code> to the directory you saved the copy of your playlist in, then type the following:</p> <p><code>unix2dos playlist-copy.m3u</code></p> <ol start="7" style="list-style-type: decimal"> <li>Plug in your Clip Sport player. Make sure it is mounted properly (ie. not as a read-only device) before proceeding.</li> <li>Copy the playlist you just converted in step 6 to the "Playlists" folder, and your music to the "Music" folder.</li> </ol> </div> <hr> <div class="box"> <p align=right>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 © Vane Vander</p> </div> </article> </body> </html>