Playlist timing & Creation..

a Couple of questions from a novice:
(1) I just spent 10 days ripping all my CD's into ITUNES, created playlists and do understand this correct that PLAYLIST will NOT copy over to the IPOD? Why not? Whew I feel like I just blew 10 days of my life. How do you get around this? Or better yet how do I salvage all the work I did?
(2) Once I can get my PLAYLIST on the IPOD I would like to know how to have them AUTOMATICALLY triggered to play at certain times of the day. I know this might be impossible but I thought I would ask.

DM wrote: What software would you use to make a playlist on your computer and transfer it to your Zen player if you have a PlaysForSure firmware installed? Can you transfer playlists with the supplied Creative software?
MediaSource might support playlist import, but it's not very good about actual transfer of playlists. Best products I know for this are the shareware Notmad Explorer and Windows Media Player which will sync playlists.
As you can tell by my sig I dont own a Zen, I own a Dell, but after all since Creative makes the firmware for the Dell DJ's then they probably have similar problems as well. One is playlist creation with PFS firmware. Not possible with Windows Media Player 0, and Windows Explorer. It is possible with Real Player 0.5 however, thats the only program currently, otherwise its manually on the player itself.
Ah yes, RealPlayer is another.

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As you can tell by my sig I dont own a Zen, I own a Dell, but after all since Creative makes the firmware for the Dell DJ's then they probably have similar problems as well. One is playlist creation with PFS firmware. Not possible with Windows Media Player 0, and Windows Explorer. It is possible with Real Player 0.5 however, thats the only program currently, otherwise its manually on the player itself.

DM wrote: What software would you use to make a playlist on your computer and transfer it to your Zen player if you have a PlaysForSure firmware installed? Can you transfer playlists with the supplied Creative software?
MediaSource might support playlist import, but it's not very good about actual transfer of playlists. Best products I know for this are the shareware Notmad Explorer and Windows Media Player which will sync playlists.
As you can tell by my sig I dont own a Zen, I own a Dell, but after all since Creative makes the firmware for the Dell DJ's then they probably have similar problems as well. One is playlist creation with PFS firmware. Not possible with Windows Media Player 0, and Windows Explorer. It is possible with Real Player 0.5 however, thats the only program currently, otherwise its manually on the player itself.
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MIKEinMICH wrote:
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