Greetings,
I'm considering the DX80 as gift for my wife, but my concern is creating and importing playlists. I have searched, and I have attempted to download the manual (it's an empty excel file). Would someone please explain the process for creating a playlist from within the player and, more important, how to import an externally created playlist. She would most likely use VLC to create her playlists. I can also create playlists for her on Jriver.
thanks for your help.
I have no problems creating and importing playlists on my DX80. I first used MediaMonkey to create a playlist in .m3u format, and that needed editing before it would import into the DX80 (see below). Now that I know how to do this, I wrote a simple program that will create playlists and those import in one step.
I wrote the instructions below for someone else. They cover using the DX80 to create a playlist, and how to import a .m3u playlist created on a PC.
These instructions kinda did not work for him - he could not get the DX80 to export a playlist (steps 9-13), and thus couldn't complete them.
These steps do work for me, since I performed the steps as I wrote them down.
Hopefully it will work for you.
It's a lot of instructions but I'm a very detailed guy... It doesn't take all that long - besides waiting for the DX80 to actually do the import.
I'm assuming you're on a Windows PC. If you're on a Mac this will be a little different - and I have no idea how it will be different, but probably in steps 15 and 16 when dealing with the slashes and backslashes.
1. Copy all the music you want to your DX80.
2. Copy the playlist file to the device - someplace easy to find like the root directory.
3. Using the DX80, play a song. Tap on the album cover until 2 symbols appear at the top - a plus sign on the left, and something on the right.
4. Tap the plus sign. You'll see all your playlists - which is probably blank except for a box with a plus sign in it.
5. Tap that box with the plus sign. This will create a new playlist called Playlist1.
6. Click the Back arrow in the top left to go back to the song that's playing.
7. Swipe right to get to the My Music screen.
8. Click on Playlist on the bottom right. Again you'll see all the playlists on the device.
9. Long-press Playlist1 until the next screen pops up.
10. Tap Export. It will take a second or so, and you'll be back on the screen showing all the playlists.
11. Plug the DX80 back into your computer.
12. Open the drive that is the DX80, and browse to the \m3u directory.
13. You should see a file called Playlist1.m3u
14. Open that file in a text editor. You'll see something like:
/mnt/external_sd/The Edgar Winter Group/They Only Come Out at Night/Frankenstein.flac
Note a couple things here - the slashes / not backslashes \, and the first two paths. In my case, "/mnt/external_sd" - you might see "/mnt/firstsd" since it depends on which slot your music card is in.
15. Using a text editor, open your playlist that you copied to the DX80 back in Step 2. You'll see a list of songs but they'll be in DOS format, something like:
C:\Music\The Edgar Winter Group\They Only Come Out at Night\Frankenstein.flac
16. Now perform 2 search-and-replace actions in the text editor:
16a. Replace all occurrences of "C:\Music\" (or whatever you have) with "/mnt/external_sd/" or "/mnt/firstsd/" (whichever one appeared in Step 14).
- NOTE: It may just be "C:\". Compare the paths and only replace what is different.
16b. Replace all occurrences of "\" with "/"
17. Save the file, which should overwrite the one on the DX80.
18. Unplug from your PC and start the DX80 up again.
19. It should be showing a song, so swipe right to get back to the My Music screen.
20. In the middle-right, tap on Directory.
21. Tap on your card that contains your music, either SD card 1 or SD card 2
22. Find your playlist that you edited in Step 16
23. Tap on your playlist. A box will pop up, asking "Import Playlist?" Tap Yes.
24. It will scan the media looking for each song. Depending on the number of songs in the playlist and on the device, it could take some time.
25. When it's done it will pop back showing the files in that directory. Click the Back arrow a few times until you're back on the My Music screen.
26. On the bottom right, click on Playlist.
27. Tap on your playlist. A list of songs in that playlist should appear. Scroll through if you wish to see if they're all there.
28. Click the back arrow to show the list of playlists.
29. Long-press your playlist. A window will pop up. Hit Play.
30. Enjoy your music.
