Rhythmbox playlists and portable players

[BBQdave]

Ubuntu 12.04 Unity with Rhythmbox and Sansa Clip+ portable music player.

How to use Rhythmbox playlists with Sansa Clip+

1 Reformat and update Sansa Clip+
Set Sansa Clip+ USB Mode to MSC.

2 Mount and open Sansa Clip+ through Nautilus File Manager

Create a .is_audio_player file on the device. You can set a few fields in this file to override the media-player-info device information like this:

audio_folders=MUSIC/,RECORDINGS/
folder_depth=2
output_formats=application/ogg,audio/x-ms-wma,audio/mpeg

Unmount Sansa Clip+ from Nautilus File Manager

3 Open Sansa Clip+ with Rhytmbox - choose and sync playlists you want.

Using Sansa Clip+ select Music > Playlists