Playlist for Mac on Clip Jam

Question

I've owned several SanDisk Clips - (Clip, Clip+ and now Clip Jam). Before the Jam, I've never had any problem creating and playing playlists for mp4 podcasts.  But I cannot figure it out on the Jam. On my old Clip+, I merely created an m3u file in Mac's TextEdit and dragged it over, along with all the podcasts to the audiobooks folder on the Clip+. It worked with or without the #EXTINF: prefix. It worked every time. But my tricks don't work on the Jam. No matter where I place the podcasts or m3U file, it doesn't work:I can get the Jam to recognize the playlistSometimes it shows/plays the first song on the listUsually the playlist is emptyI don't have regular acess to a windows machine, so the example in the owners manual is no help.  What changed in the Jam that the old way no longer works? How can I make playlists on a Mac? Thanks for the help  

Answer 1

Playlists on the JAM and SPORT need to be M3U. The playlist must be in the same folder as the songs, so a playlist with songs from both card memory and internal memory won't work.  The Jam and Sport have three Go lists that you can create on the player. Each can hold up to 100 songs. Unlike the Clip+ though, only one song at a time can be added to a Go List. I don't use playlists on my Clip Sport, but do use them on my Rockboxed Clip+ and Clip Zip.  There seem to be plenty of  issues with how podcasts and audiobooks are treated on the Clip+ and Clip Zip. There might not even be support for playlists for podcasts or audiobooks on the Clip Sport and Clip Jam. I suggest that you put the podcasts in the music folder if you want to use playlists with them. Are these podcasts properly tagged? If the player is still returnable, you might want to consider returning it and getting a Clip+ or Clip Zip. There might also not be complete MP4 support, and might be issues with playing long MP4 files. The Clip sport and Clip Jam are much more geared to playing mp3 files than MP4 ones.