M3u playlists on PSP - Help Needed!

[Nu-Eclipse]

I have tried everything that I can think of and I still cant get an m3u playlist to work successfully on my PSP, and it is fecking frustrating, to say the least!!

Any helpful comment on this matter would be much appreciated.

Solutions in layman terms would be good too....

[in5ane]

Have you tried googling 'psp m3u playlist' ? There seems to be a ton of useful pages already about this. Haven't really bothered with MP3s on my PSP yet, but from what i gather, playlists aren't too hard to set up.

[wonderboy]

All you need to do, is list the tracks with Windows Media Player 10. Once
happy with the line up. Just save play list. Top right, where it say's, now
playing list, bottom one. Save playlist, but save as M3U. Then all you need
to do is put the M3U file in with the tunes, in a folder. Then put them in the
Music folder on your PSP.....

Hope this helps...

[Nu-Eclipse]

Many thanks for the help.

I must confess that I solved the problem myself earlier - I used WMP to create said m3u playlist, and the rest is history...

Having said that though, I think I'll be sticking to my iPod for my portable music thrills in the future.

[bazald]

Script for avoiding WMP10 (Think Linux)

I wrote a couple of programs for generating the needed version of .m3u files on Linux platforms to my website. They could easily be ported to other platforms. The basic things to keep in mind are to keep all useful information out of the .m3u files and to perform line breaks with carriage returns and newlines. I don't know why the PSP won't accept a generic .m3u file though. (I'm thinking lack of serious testing or knowledge about .m3u files.)

I have tested the generated .m3u files to work, and they do (as they should - they are identical to the .m3u files WMP10 would generate, bit for bit).

http://zenipex.com/progs/scripts/pspm3ugen-1.0.00.cpp
and a batch extension:
http://zenipex.com/progs/scripts/pspm3ubatch-1.0.01.cpp

Note: May not be latest versions - see http://zenipex.com/progs/

EDIT: Actually, they will describe the syntax when you run them with no parameters. (They are command-line programs.)