Change Format for M3U Playlist on Sansa Fuze

[xcfan]

Hey everyone! I tried searching the forum and the web, but I couldn't find anything. The Sansa Fuze evidently requires an unusual formatting of the ".M3U" Playlist file. No, I don't want to use the MTP USB setting. I want to use MSC. The playlist MUST be formatted in the following and placed in the "Playlists" folder.

Here is the folder structure:

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[ROOT]:\MUSIC\[First Letter of Artist Name]\[Artist]\[Album]\[Track #] [Track Title]

Here is the folder the playlists are in:

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[ROOT]:PLAYLISTS\[Playlist Name].M3U

Here is the default .M3U structure:

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\Music\S\Slick Shoes\Super Saturday\06 Alone or Organic.wma
\Music\R\Rich Mullins\Worship Jamz 2\06 Awesome God.wma
\Music\B\Brian Doerksen\Worship Jamz 2\07 Come, Now Is the Time to Worship [Mo' Jammin' Version].wma
\Music\N\Newsboys\Thrive\07 Cornelius.wma

Here is the necessary .M3U structure:

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..\Music\S\Slick Shoes\Super Saturday\06 Alone or Organic.wma
..\Music\R\Rich Mullins\Worship Jamz 2\06 Awesome God.wma
..\Music\B\Brian Doerksen\Worship Jamz 2\07 Come, Now Is the Time to Worship [Mo' Jammin' Version].wma
..\Music\N\Newsboys\Thrive\07 Cornelius.wma

Yes, I know I can manually do this with Notepad and Find and Replace, but this shouldn't be necessary, anyone with any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
XCFan

[guest]

Hi
This works on Sansa Clip -

STEP 1 - Drag and drop music files from the PC to the Sansa player's MUSIC folder.

STEP 2 - Create an M3U playlist. You can do this with Windows Media Player, by choosing the option file>>save current Playlist >> as an m3u file.

Open the m3u file with notepad, or a text editor.
In the first line type #EXTM3U.
After the first line, start listing your music files (with extension). One music file each line.
Use search and replace to quickly delete unwanted characters such as ..\
NB there should be NO leading backslash!
Typical format:
Music\Daniel Lanois\Here Is What Is\08 Harry.mp3

Exit the text editor and save the m3u file once you are finished.

STEP 3 - Drag and drop this M3U playlist to the Sansa player's root folder, IE one level above the Music folder.

For me, the Eureka moment was deleting the leading backslash, and placing the m3u file one level above the Sansa's Music folder.
Here's a raw section of my working m3u file:

#EXTM3U
Music\Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE\Clasicos Españoles Disc 2\10 El Amor Brujo.mp3
Music\Daniel Lanois\Here Is What Is\08 Harry.mp3