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music playlists

Hi all,
I am a 935 owning, looking at the 945. I have a query about garmin handles music - and cant find an answer. Can any 645M owners help please ?
I do not use spotify, so will transfer my own music and podcast files.
How are playlists created ? Are they auto by folder and file name - ie to create an album I need to ensure all files are named 01, 02 etc? Or does it use the mp3 tag data, or a manual m3u playlist file in the same folder ?
Any solution for using audible audio books ? I assume these will be DRM crippled.... can garmin cope with that in the same way that itunes/ipod shuffle can ?

0 esarhaddon over 6 years ago

I transfer my own music over to my 645M, and now I rarely have problems that restarting the watch does not fix. I normally use Garmin Express on my computer, and I make my playlists in iTunes of either music or podcasts. It is mostly seamless now that Garmin Express has gone through a bunch of improvements, but it can get pretty slow to load everything in Express if you have too many audio files in iTunes.

It is also pretty easy to just make your own m3u8 files and move the music and podcasts manually. I did this back when previous versions of Garmin Express did not read iTunes .m3u playlists on Windows.

I don't use Audible and all of my music has no DRM, so I have not tried to get those types of files to work.

here is an example of one of my short Random.m3u8 playlist in the media directory of my 645M.
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Le Tigre\This Island\11 I'm So Excited.mp3
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists\Running\Woke Up Near Chelsea.mp3
Amadou & Mariam\Gym List\Fast Senegal Fast Food.mp3
The Aquabats\Gym List\09 Fast Meltdown!.mp3
The Hives\Gym List\Fast Won't Be Long.mp3
Aquabats\Gym List\Fast Fashion Zombies.mp3
Le Tigre\This Island\11 I'm So Excited.mp3
The Sounds\Weekend\09 Animal.mp3
Deep Sea Arcade\Outlands\02 Seen No Right.mp3
Dead Kennedys\Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death\08 Holiday in Cambodia.mp3
First Aid Kit\Stay Gold [Explicit]\01 My Silver Lining.mp3
Podcasts\Planet Money\#840_ Fixing Chicken.mp3