The X-fi 2 is undoubtly one of the best MP3 players in it's price segment. Except one thing: you cannot transfer standard m3u playlists to the player, allthoug ZEN stores them in the same fortmat internally. But with some modifications that makes it very hard to do it manually. Since the playlists are simple text files you can easely check whats going on. First the player stores all music that you transfer to it into a special foldr structure startin with the root folder MUSIC, then artist, then album. So the references in the internal playlists are relativ to the root folder. Second it converts the filenames to the old DOS standard, that means, they are shortend to eight letters using the ~ character and number if there are sveral files startin with the same eight letters. It would be a pain to change those names manually and is of course failure proned. But since I'm a .NET programmer I wrote a little program for myself that could be useful for everybody else using the Zen. The process is simple an straightforwar: create your playlist as usual (preferrable with winamp), copy the neccessary files to the Zen (it will then store them in the right folders itself). Then open my program, locate the ZEN, load the playlist, the program will check if and how many of the files are on the ZEN, then convert. Ready.
If you are interested, mail to my facebook account. If there are enough people, I will put it on my online storage for public access.
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