How do you transfer Windows Media Player playlists from the desktop to the ipaq?

Whenever I try doing this, they are not recognized by my 2755.

The way I tried doing it was by creating a playlist in WMP on the desktop PC and then copying and pasting it onto my ipaq.

I also tried copying a playlist from within WMP on the desktop PC, but all that did was copy the songs associated with the playlist. But this does not create a playlist on the ipaq and so the songs are just organized in alphabetical order.

The end result that I want is to just be able to see a playlist under the Library>>My Playlists section of WMP on the ipaq.

Any ideas?

I am using Windows Media Player 9 Series on the desktop PC.

I don't use WMP for my PC or my PDA, I use Winamp and GSPlayer. I have a playlist on my computer with all my music and the music I want on my PDA I copy to the SD card from where my music is stored. I then open GSPlayer and find all the music files then sort the playlist out there. A lot easier then playing around with WMP.

My "My PDA" now updated with hints and tips including a ROM fix for the RX3700 series and installing Transport Tycoon onto your PDA.

I run Windows Media Player 10 on my desktop and Windows Mobile Player 10 on my PDA. I'm not sure how you'd do this with WMP 9, but with WMP 10, you have to create the playlists on the desktop computer (there is no way to create playlists on the mobile version) and then use WMP's sync option to synch the playlists to the PDA.

After you've properly synched the playlists to the PDA, you can see them and use them on the PDA.

However, I don't think Windows Media Player handles this very efficiently. There is no way to synch just the playlist. To create the playlists requires having all the music that you want to include on the playlist to reside on the desktop computer. Then when you synch the playlist, the music is also synched. So you cannot create playlists retroactively. For instance, several months ago I used Windows Media Player to rip and synch several albums (with no playlists included) to my PDA. Then I deleted the albums from my desktop computer. Later I decided I wanted to create a playlist for my PDA, so I opened up Windows Media Player on my desktop computer and created a playlist referencing several songs from the CDs I had deleted (even though the music was no longer on my computer, Windows Media Player still retained an index of the album contents). When I attempted to synchronize this playlist over to my PDA, nothing was sent over.

Upon further investigation, I discovered that creating a playlist that will get transferred to the PDA requires that the songs be stored on the computer. Then during the synch of the playlist, the songs also gets resynched to the PDA....so the songs show up twice on my PDA.

So if you want to create a playlist, you must do this at the same time you are synching your music to the PDA. This seems hardly efficient or flexible.

     

That sounds utterly useless to me.

Why on earth they removed the ability to create playlists in WMP10 I do not know.

Anyway, thanks for your answer. I ended up loading a free program called PlaylistEditor, which allows you to create WMP playlists on the Pocket PC. The only down draw is that it is a separate program, so you have to go outside of WMP to create them. Otherwise I think it is handy - it's just crazy to think that we need to load other programs to do what WMP should already be capable of.

I have a playlist editor for the Pocket PC that works with WMP10. Please email me at smash880@yahoo.com if you want it. It's freeware and works great.