Comments on: Using Amarok Generated Playlists (m3u) on Sansa Clip

By: Tommy Stanton

Tommy Stanton — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:19:07 +0000

Excellent post, thanks for the helpful tip!

Related to what Junior suggested, I used your idea and created a shell function. I put these lines in my ~/.bashrc:

sansa-m3u () {
sed ‘s|^\./||;s|/|\\|g’ -i” “$@”
}

Then (after using “. ~/.bashrc” to source it) all I had to do was:
$ sansa-m3u *.m3u

…before deploying the playlists to my Sansa.

-Tommy

By: Dazed

Dazed — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:27:57 +0000

Man, you are awesome. Thanks. A lot. I stored that one liner as “sansatize” in my bash.rc-

Makes life a lot easier.

By: Junior

Junior — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:12:36 +0000

Sed dosen’t need to use “/” for seperation. I believe any character will work. So especially when the pattern or replacemnt involves a “/”, it’s sensible to use something else. I use a “-”. The “\” still need so be escaped though. Just makes it easier to read.
sed ‘s-^./–;s-/-\\-g’

I also had to add a line with
#EXTM3U
to the beginning of the playlist. Or maybe that wasn’t from Amarok… Anyway, I sure like my Clip with it’s good sound and ability to play ogg and flac files!