Copying Music and Playlist to M8

Hi All,

My method is from Windows Media Player (as i originally had problems copying *.wpl playlists to the M8 which were not recognized):

I am sure you have your own methods of doing this and also manipulating music on your computers - i tend to use WMP11 with vista (though have heard good things about Media Monkey). In anycase, mine is a simple (and pretty obvious) method to copy music to the M8 in the proper folder format, as well as a m3u file for the playlist. (to the best of my knowledge the M8 can cope with asx and m3u playlist files only).

WMP11 has a pretty simple 'sync' interface which will copy your music to the portable device, but doesn't always copy the playlist, and since it is a pain to make a playlist (at least for me) on the M8, i prefer this method.

1. Make a playlist in WMP11 by selecting songs the regular way, they should appear in the left hand column, when you go to save the playlist goto'save as' and select m3u, name the file and remember the folder you save it in (generally music\playlist)

2. Goto the 'sync' tab, load the playlist in the left hand column, and simply 'sync' - this will copy the playlist songs only to the M8

3. Navigate to the folder on your PC where you stored the playlist m3u file, select the file copy it to the 'playlist' folder in the m8 disk\music.

simple. I know probably very logical for most people. But for newbies in the media arena it may help - feel free to post your own methods.