Rearrange songs on the SanDisk
Creating Playlists on
the Sansa M240
The Sansa M240 is a decent device, but if you
are like many, you have not been able to create playlists. The instructions with the player and the
maker’s website offer little help. Here
a solution that I found on-line with some additional detail. The step by step instructions for even those
with little computer savvy.
1. power up your M240 player without connecting
to your computer. Scroll thru the menu to the “settings” menu. Select “USB”, deselect “auto detect” then
select “MSC”. (I don’t know if this step
is critical, but I picked up this suggestion from another site)
2. Power down the MP240 and using the cable
supplied with your player, connect to the USB port of your computer. The display will show “MSC” when connected.
3. If you have not already done so, download the
songs you want to include on your playlist from your computer to the M240. Any number of media player software packages
will allow you to copy or burn your songs to a “portable media device” for this
step.
4. After
your songs are downloaded, on your computer, go to “My Computer” and open the
"Sansa M240" icon. On the
explorer task bar, select “view”> “details”.
You should see several standard folders and all your songs. (Note I have used this for both .wma and .mp3
formats and have intermixed them in the playlist)
5. On your computer, open a new Notepad document
and save it to your desktop.
Name it
whatever you like, but it has to have “.m3u” as a file extension when you save
it.
For example
I named mine…. playlist1.m3u, playlist2.m3u, playlist3.m3u.
6. Next, in this newly saved notepad document, type
this exactly on the very first line <
#EXTM3U > without the
brackets.
7. Now, find your first song in the open
M240 folder, place your cursor on it, right click and select
"rename". When the song title
is highlighted hit control + C or "Copy" the entire title, being
careful not to change anything. Now
place your cursor immediately after the #EXTM3U text, hit return and paste the
title of your first song directly below it with NO line space in between.
8. Repeat the steps to copy the title of your next song from the M240 folder.
When copied, place your cursor immediately after the previous song title copied
in the step above. Hit return Twice to create a single line space after the song
title and paste in the next song title at the beginning of the line. Repeat this process til you have built your
playlist.
8. After you’ve entered your last song title, it should look something like
this. (Either .mp3 or .wma extensions
can be used)
-----------------------------
#EXTM3U
First song.mp3
Second song.mp3
Third song.mp3
And so on.mp3
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Now, within your notepad playlist
document, click File/Save (noting where it was saved) and close the file. Now, find that same original playlist on your
computer. Highlight it and copy / paste it onto your M240. I copied mine into a folder called “playlist”
on the M240. Then I repeated the process
for other playlists, giving each a unique name.
After
allowing sufficient time for the file to copy, use the icon in the lower
taskbar of your computer to “safely disconnect hardware” to unplug your
player. Disconnect the USB cord, power
up and your ready to enjoy your playlists.
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