How can I export a playlist to a jump drive?

My new motorcycle has a stereo with a usb port. I am using an iPod, but i frequently have dropouts or disconnects. I would like to try a jump drive, but pulling songs out of the folders takes so long…if I could drag a current playlist to the drive that would be much preferred. Plus it would take the album art with it. That leads to question #2…if I have to build a playlist by pulling songs out of folders, is there a way to get the album art? If not from iTunes, is there some other software? I checked out media monkey, but it does not appear to be iMac compatible.

Playlists are not in Finder, they are in iTunes.  In reality they are only a list of tracks in your library file, not a specific arrangement of files in Finder.  It's like a recipe in a cookbook.  You have a recipe for cake and it tells you the ingredients for that cake which you have in various places in the kitchen.  You probably do not keep the shelves in your kitchen arranged by recipe, otherwise you would have 50 containers of salt, 30 of flour, etc.  If your files were arranged by playlist on the computer you might end up with 10 copies of the same file and people would quickly complain here about wasting drive space.
Open a Finder window, make it smaller and place it on the left side of your screen.
Open iTunes and make the window smaller and place it on the right side of your screen.
Click on a playlist and drag it from the iTunes window to the flash drive open in the Finder window, or even just where it shows in the sidebar if you have your preferences set for drives to display.  All the files that make up the contents of that playlist will be copied to the flash drive.  You won't see a playlist as such, but you will see all the files in that playlist.  How your motorcycle's player handles things from this point really depends upon the motorcycle's player software and you will have to read the manual for that.  Some only play a bunch of files alphabetically. Some may use specific playlist files to make a more orderly structure similar to iTunes, and then there's a whole different question as to how to generate that.

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