SanDisk Clip Sport Go M3U playlists

The SanDisk Clip Sport Go mp3 player supports M3U playlists but the playlist files must have CRLF terminators. If you are on Windows, you don’t need to worry about this, but on Unix-like systems like MacOS you need a bit of glue code (on Linux you can use dos2unix).

File playlistme.sh

#!/bin/bash

playlistMe() {
  dir="$1"
  cd "$dir";
  echo "Creating playlist for: $dir"
  ls -A1;

  if ls -1 | egrep -i "\.(aac|mp3|m4a|wma|wav|flac|ogg)" &>/dev/null; then
    m3u="$dir.m3u"
    echo "#EXTM3U" > "$m3u"
    for audio_file in *.mp3; do
      echo -n "#EXTINF:0," >> "$m3u"
      echo "$audio_file" >> "$m3u"
      echo "$audio_file" >> "$m3u"
      echo "" >> "$m3u"
    done
    perl -pi -e 's/$/\r/' "$m3u"
  fi
  cd ..
}

playlistMe "$1"

If you run the script in a folder with some MP3s, you’ll get a M3U playlist with CRLFs terminators.

$ playlistme music
Creating playlist for: music
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In the Dark.mp3
Madonna - Into The Groove.mp3
The Prodigy - Firestarter.mp3
music.m3u

$ cat -e music/music.m3u
#EXTM3U^M$
#EXTINF:0,Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In the Dark.mp3^M$
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In the Dark.mp3^M$
^M$
#EXTINF:0,Madonna - Into The Groove.mp3^M$
Madonna - Into The Groove.mp3^M$
^M$
#EXTINF:0,The Prodigy - Firestarter.mp3^M$
The Prodigy - Firestarter.mp3^M$
^M$

As you can see the CRLF line endings (\r\n) are displayed as ^M$.

You can then just upload the music folder into your SanDisk.