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Isaacc7:
This is probably a super niche issue at this point so I understand if it can't be addressed in software but maybe someone could give me a workaround for the problem? I have a Sandisk Clipjam MP3 player. When I export a playlist to it the playlist is "empty" on the player. The music comes over no problem but the playlist doesn't work.

It looks like others have figured out the problem. Looking at the support forum for Sandisk I see:

"The problem seems to be that the ClipJam expects a DOS format text file (with 2 characters that mark the end of a line), and rejects any in UNIX format text file (where there is only one character at the end of a line).

You need to look for a tool that can change the format of the playlist file.  On Cygwin and Linux (and I assume a Mac) you can use the unix2dos tool from the command line - which you would use like this:
unix2dos PLAYLIST.M3U"

It would be really cool if this could be implemented as an option in MC because I don't know what the solution means lol. If that's not possible does anyone know how I could fix it myself? Thanks.

bob:

--- Quote from: Isaacc7 on November 12, 2023, 07:39:42 pm ---This is probably a super niche issue at this point so I understand if it can't be addressed in software but maybe someone could give me a workaround for the problem? I have a Sandisk Clipjam MP3 player. When I export a playlist to it the playlist is "empty" on the player. The music comes over no problem but the playlist doesn't work.

It looks like others have figured out the problem. Looking at the support forum for Sandisk I see:

"The problem seems to be that the ClipJam expects a DOS format text file (with 2 characters that mark the end of a line), and rejects any in UNIX format text file (where there is only one character at the end of a line).

You need to look for a tool that can change the format of the playlist file.  On Cygwin and Linux (and I assume a Mac) you can use the unix2dos tool from the command line - which you would use like this:
unix2dos PLAYLIST.M3U"

It would be really cool if this could be implemented as an option in MC because I don't know what the solution means lol. If that's not possible does anyone know how I could fix it myself? Thanks.

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MC probably should write DOS style terminators in playlists to the player.
I'm just not sure about android players since android is a unix based OS. I'd guess that they'd be expecting DOS style terminators though.

Isaacc7:
That’s a good point. It would be great to have the option to pick version gets written. It seems that both the source OS and the destination OS matter.

leezer3:

--- Quote from: bob on November 14, 2023, 07:15:50 pm ---MC probably should write DOS style terminators in playlists to the player.
I'm just not sure about android players since android is a unix based OS. I'd guess that they'd be expecting DOS style terminators though.

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Most Android based players I've ever come across expect DOS style terminators.
Presumably because they're designed to be used / synced with Windows machines.

Isaacc7:
The clipjam is an old school MP3 player, it can’t do anything other than play audio. There is some sort of OS on it but I don’t know if it is Android. In any case, it was also made with the assumption of using Windows. I guess Apple crowded out other MP3 players for people with Macs.

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