(preferably canola)

is there any way to sync playlists straight to canola or rhapsody
from windows media player or itunes or rhapsody on a pc, all of which i have on my computer and all of which i can easily create playlists for on my computer?

im not very good with programming so i do not want to have to make a file that reads songs and then can be considered a playlist, as ive seen in some posts

i am aware that apparently it can be done where playlists are synced to the default media player on the n810 but i dont see why i should use the media player when everyone raves about the awesomely user-friendly interface of canola

i am also aware of making playlists straight from canola with the on the go option which can then be saved as a playlist, however i believe that option is unrealistic as i would have to go through my entire library and hold down each song to add it to the playlist, if i understand correctly

i do apologize if the answer is obvious and is lurking somewhere in itt, but i have looked at the recommended posts and ive used the search feature and i believe that if i post it here some nice person can easily help me do what i would like to accomplish

any help would be greatly appreciated

anyone?

Do you only need to copy one playlist to your N810? Plug in the N810 in as a USB Mass Storage device, start iTunes, click on your playlist, click "Edit | Select All" and drag your music from iTunes into your N810.

If you want true syncing (to cope with removed as well as added files), I only know this solution but it's Mac only:
http://www.muxton.com/2006/09/02/how...mac-os-x-only/

If you need to sync multiple playlists, sorry I can't help.

i have searched in this forum and found tool called tagtool. maybe it will help you.
can you copy a playlist from one pc to another? i am not sure since the path of songs will be different.
anyway the playlist of canola seems simple
(playlist)
NumberOfSongs=

File1=a.mp3
title1=a
length1=-1

File2=...

well i have about 6 or 7 playlists

and i meant like if i go on itunes and right click on a playlist and select export song list it saves it as a file right?

so if i saved a text file for each one in the my_music folder on my sd card, and then just transferred all the songs into the folder, would my playlists come up on canola? basically, is there anywhere i can save those itunes text files so that canola can use them as sort of a directory and then my playlists would show up?

because i have more than one playlist and i dont have a mac so those two solutions wont work, and i dont really understand vabgeo when you say

"anyway the playlist of canola seems simple
(playlist)
NumberOfSongs=

File1=a.mp3
title1=a
length1=-1

File2=... "

i believe you mean that i would have to put each song in in that format and then it could be saved as a playlist on canola? that seems like a lot of work considering i have a hefty number of songs, but i suppose if that the only solution and the itunes text files idea doesnt work that might be my only choice

so if that IS my only choice, could anyone direct me to a post with step by step instructions for the process?

thanks again

did u try searching for tagtool? maybe it will help

for the first question, i do not know the format of itunes exported ascii playlist, so cant comment on it. if the location of each file is given as relative paths, it might work. u will have to try it out.
here is what I did.
created a playlist in canola
saved with name vabgeo
searched for the file vabgeo using xterminal and found that canola has saved it in /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/vabgeo.pls
the content is what i posted -answers ur 2nd question

if you can post a small portion of itunes exported playlist say 2 songs. I can say how hard or easy it is to convert it.

by the way if you couldnt find similar questions on this forum, it probably means u probably need to do it manually...

uhh im pretty sure i included an attachment of the text file "test" that is made when i export a song list from itunes

basically i made a 2 song playlist like you said, named it test, and theres the result (if i attached it right)

sooo if you could tell me how i get that to show up on canola's playlist section i would probably love you forever

i checked the your test.txt.
the mp3 file name path is c:\documents and settings\name\your name's ipod\BWC\filename.mp3
that is the playlist is fixed to your pc. you will not be able to use this playlist easily in any other itunes or windows, so expecting it to work in a different OS - maemo or linux is wishful thinking.

there are two options,
manually recreate your playlist. e.g export all your music in the file list to a folder , copy the folder to N8x0 and use in canola.

get ready for some hacking and learning programming like bash scripts.

I am not sure about the last line, maybe a thanks should be enough if it helps u