Fenix 6 playlists- where will it be stored- how can it be deleted???

Have sometimes serious Problems with copying mp3 music files to my fenix device. Either that i have to wait very Long time for copying something or i am confused when i check the Playlists on my Desktop later with them on the fenix device. Only a few of them appear on the fenix Screen, many of them not.

What is the Problem, where can i find the Playlists (m3u, wpl) on the fenix stored? searching in fenix Windows file Explorer for it brought no positive result.

I ask why i want to delete Playlists with according mp3 files from the watch but i could not find some of them. I use Garmin Express for it.

Or is it a temporary bug that Needs to be updated with on of the next updates?

Would be good if anyone could write a Feedback... Best Regards HB

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0 Alf1563 over 4 years ago

Same issues on Fenix 5 Plus ..........

0 Hans.Baun over 4 years ago in reply to Alf1563

Anyone has an answer concerning this topic? i have been waiting for so long ...

0 DCeremuga over 4 years ago

the playlists, if Garmin created them correctly and they copied over, are located in the /music root folder. ALL of them. I had soo many problems with the whole itunes copy playlists function because of characters in the names of the mp3 files. I spent literally days getting things renamed, recreated playlists in itunes then finally would get them to transfer and the playlist file created.

I then backed up the whole music folder in case I had to reset the watch, I could just copy the backup and not bother with Garmin Express.

The whole music thing with playlists is a nightmare to deal with, but it does work when you get it right.

0 8761643 over 4 years ago in reply to DCeremuga

I can see the playlist and original media (music and podcast) in the windows explorer after syncing through Garmin Express or Windows Media Player; however, I can't get it to show up or play on my fenix 6. Is there a specific music player I need to have installed?

0 tony.willenberg over 4 years ago

I'm afraid, I too, have problems syncing media to my Garmin FENIX 6X. Songs are missing, playlists are empty, artists list but with nothing to play when selected. Really disappointed that I bought this watch to play music during my workouts and they got my money. Should have gone with an Apple Watch.

0 tony.willenberg over 4 years ago

My brand new FENIX 6X has the same problem. Songs say they have copied across to the device. Device has blank entries. I bought this watch especially for music and feel pretty cheated by the whole exercise. This thing is not cheap and I don't trust them now. Surely they have experienced this problem in test and they still release the product to get us to buy the device but it clearly was not ready. Really bad experience.

0 SPIRITOFPHOTOGRAPHY over 3 years ago in reply to tony.willenberg

Same here. This playlist issue is really annoying.

0 SPIRITOFPHOTOGRAPHY over 3 years ago in reply to SPIRITOFPHOTOGRAPHY

Found a solution: The playlists created with foobar2000 are "compatible". In those m3u files are just the relative paths to the files, no tags or other meta info. It seems the m3u is not really standardized.
You can also just create a txt file (best on Windows with notepad++), copy the paths to the files, rmove drive letters and save this file as m3u. Done, no tool needed. Example:
Nightwish\Human Nature\01 - Music.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\02 - Noise.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\03 - Shoemaker.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\04 - Harvest.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\05 - Pan.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\06 - How's the Heart_.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\07 - Procession.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\08 - Tribal.mp3
Nightwish\Human Nature\09 - Endlessness.mp3

0 Mohamed Sahl over 3 years ago in reply to tony.willenberg

I can't even play any song when connected properly to my regular bluetooth headset.

is it normal not see an icon for the music (as in the photo attached)

Do you have any fix to this problem yet?

I'm really sad because I've got the Fenix 6s Pro (yea I even paid extra) specially for storing music and having them on the go while running without the need for my phone.

0 1972945 over 3 years ago

Same Issue, brand new Fenix 6 solar. Was able to connect playlist 2-3 times now the device says it connects but will not play music. Please fix this bug Garmin