Create Playlists For Android From Your Mac/*nix Machine

by Sufian on August 17, 2010 · 1 comment

Creating playlists on Android is quite cumbersome.  I found a blog post with some quick steps on creating the playlist, and it works great on my mac!

Here’s how:

1) Plug in the phone
2) Open a terminal window, and navigate to the folder containing the audio you would like to make a playlist.
3) Type the following command (replace .mp3 with the format of your audio files):

find ./ -name “*.mp3″ >> myplaylist.m3u

4) Unmount the drive and unplug the phone.
5) The playlist will now show up under the playlists tab in the Music player app on the Android device.

If I want to modify the order of the audio in the playlist, I just connect the phone and edit the playlist file directly. No more messing with the playlist using the phone UI.

Windows users, check out the instructions mentioned in the blog linked above.

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1 SV August 4, 2011 at 5:35 pm

That is simple and that is what I am looking for, thank you.

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