musicmafia Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 No matter what I try, playlists will not work properly or at all from USB. I use Windows Media Player and Windows 7. Music files are in compatible .wma format. I've tried playlist formats .wpl, .pla and .m3u I started with my old mp3 player. All songs loaded fine but indexing was very slow. A couple incomplete playlists showed but that's all. Bought a USB. Sync'd all the music files (@ 40 gbs) via WMP, but no playlists were showing. Copied/pasted the playlists manually onto the USB drive (into root and into folder) and neither works. Playlist titles will show but playlists show as empty and will not play. Saw other members comments on software called SyncPlaylist. Downloaded program but it says I need to install Java, which I've been living happily without for some time. Too bug-vulnerable for me. This week I figured out a clunky workaround using another 3rd party software. Its not that difficult, just time consuming. I imported my wpl playlists into Amok Playlist Copy (free download, doesnt require java), then re-sorted them to number serially, then export the renamed files into folders in the root of my usb. I had to manually create a folder and name it to match each playlist. so my usb drive has these folders: Music (all the songs) Title of "playlist" folder 1 (containing the numerically renamed files) Title of playlist folder 2 etc etc etc I cant voice command the folders in Ford Sync BUT I can hit browse and see the list of "playlist" folders and they play. It is merely a folder containing those songs but at least it works. Others say Media Monkey can sync m3u playlists to usb, but so far I cant get m3u playlists to read by Sync. Seems odd that Sync (powered by Microsoft) is not compatible with WMP playlists (powered by Microsoft). Does anyone know an easier way to play my playlists from usb, preferably from WMP? Thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordIVTteam Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Hi, musicmafia - SYNC currently supports the following audio files: MP3, WMA, WAV and AAC. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. Jaclyn robertlane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmafia Posted October 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 As mentioned in my OP, all my files are WMA but PLAYLISTS from Windows Media Player will not work from USB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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