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I am using Foobar2000 but have not been able to figure out how to generate a valid playlist that an MP3 player can use.

For example, I have SanDisk Clip Jam MP3 player. It has 5 folders on it, two of which are Music and Playlists. I have copied all my MP3 music files into the Music folder, and that seems to be working. For example, the song with the file name 01 - Carry on Wayward Son.mp3 shows up as "Carry on Wayward Son" in the main "Music" list on the player's LCD screen.

The problem is that I tried to save a playlist from Foobar2000 to the player and it is not recognizing. Foobar can save playlists in 3 different formats (fpl, m3u, and m3u8). When I open up the files that it creates, it has the full path name to the song ON MY COMPUTER, not a relative pathname. So, for example, there are entries in the playlist file like K:\music\rock\01 - Carry on Wayward Son.mp3. So, possibly the player is confused by the pathname? I don't know.

When I open the "Playlist Option" on the player, it shows the name of my playlist file, but then says it is "empty".

Giacomo1968
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Tyler Durden
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    Foobar tries to use portable paths whenever possible. When you save the playlist and select a location for it, you should select the same drive as where your music files are. I usually save them in my root music folder. I just double checked and I see relative paths in my playlist files – nixda Jun 10 '18 at 10:23

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Mp3 player will not have same paths and files won't be there, in your example you should open in notepad (or any text editor) and Replace all instances of "K:\music\rock\" to the correct mp3 player path. (Try to make a playlist on your mp3 player and obtain it's structure from there)

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