topic Re: Create Walkman playlist on Linux in Portable Audio

Create Walkman playlist on Linux

lolmanlolz — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:41:11 GMT

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to create a playlist on my Walkman NWZ-E384 under Linux. Creating a m3u playlist shouldn't be that hard in theory, but once I transfer it to the Walkman, it always tells me "No songs available for playback. Please connect to compliant software or device and transfer songs."

I've transferred lots of music, and have been playing it fine for months, but now I want to use playlists. Editing the m3u playlist (which is just a bunch of paths to the files in a text file) manually, I've tried lots of different things to get it to find the songs the playlist refers to, but I can't get it to work.

Has anyone found a way to make walkman playlists on Linux? I'd already be happy with a sample m3u from someone else's walkman that I can edit myself, just to see what the relative path to songs looks like.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Create Walkman playlist on Linux

jumpsuit — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:25:14 GMT

Hi @lolmanlolz and welcome to the Community

I have no personal experience of this but have seen some people online recommending

a file manager app called Gnomad.

Here's an excerpt from an old post:

"Now here is the super-cool part: In the Gnomad window, select the Playlist tab. It will display a totally blank window, or will display existing playlists if you have any. Right click in the window, and a context menu will pop up from which you can create a playlist. Create your playlist and switch back to the music transfer window. On the player side, select the tracks (click, shift click, or ctrl click in the usual file manager way), then right click on one of the tracks you have selected. A pop up menu will appear allowing you to add the tracks to your playlist. You can add tracks to multiple playlists.
You can create your playlists BEFORE you even transfer music to your device, then, when you transfer tracks, you will be prompted to add the tracks to one or more playlists as you go."

Have a look Here

Hope this helps

Re: Create Walkman playlist on Linux

lolmanlolz — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:34:53 GMT

Thanks for your reply!

So far I've gotten it working by placing the playlist file in the MUSIC/ directory on the Walkman, which is good enough for me.

This is what the relative paths look like for placing the m3u file in the music folder, referring to mp3's in directories within MUSIC/: (in case this helps somebody in the future)

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:29,Artist - songname
directory/songname.mp3
#EXTINF:232,Artist - songname2
directory/songname2.mp3

etc.etc.

If anyone knows how I would need to change the relative paths in the m3u file to make it work from the PLAYLISTS/ dir, that would be fantastic. I will have a look at whether I can get Gnomad to run, it does look promising

Cheers