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How to create a "Playlist" on VA3M without having iTunes?

Former Member
Former Member over 6 years ago
Hi together,

I got the VA3M recently an I'm very lucky with it.

I copied Music to the watch and it is perfect playing it.
BUT: Due to not owning iTunes or such Music Managers I only copied folders and files.

How can I create now different "Playlists"?
Because otherwise it plays only per interpret, album and so on.
Has anyone an idea?

As far as I know it is also not possible to play from folders. Isn't it?

Thanks in advance,
Cayenne
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    It is not possible to play from a folder. That is one of my biggest gripes. I wish it were possible, then I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of creating a playlist. I don't know if that's something Garmin can easily add.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    ´The lacking ability to play from folders is terrible!

    But you mention, you create playlists. HOW exactly do you do this?
    And how do you get them on the watch?

    Please give me an explanation!
    Thank you in advance!

    KR Cayenne
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    Hi together,

    is somebody out there who could explain how to get a real playlist onto the watch?
    So that you have e. g. 30 mp3-files on it and the playlist contains 10 of them in a different order to be played.

    Thanks for answering!
    KR Cayenne
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    I have a freeware audio player called foobar200 that I use to save playlists. VLC will do it too. I also think windows media player will, but I haven't messed with it. If you run Mac, I'm not sure what you could use. Regardless, it's extra steps that could be avoided if we could just play a folder's content.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    The way I do it with win10 is via file explorer: select a bunch of mp3s in the watch's /primary/music folder or a subfolder, then right-click and choose Create Playlist. I have to go out of the folder and back in to see the .m3u playlist.

    On my PC, O: seems to be a virtual drive letter for the watch's primary folder. Here's the content of a
    Playlist I use for parkruns, picking a set of mp3s from those in the 170190bpm folder

    0:/MUSIC/170190BPM/VARIOUS - 06 - MODERN LOVE.MP3
    0:/MUSIC/170190BPM/VARIOUS - 10 - OUT IN THE FIELDS.MP3
    0:/MUSIC/170190BPM/VARIOUS - 11 - MONTH OF MAY.MP3
    0:/MUSIC/170190BPM/VARIOUS - 12 - RUNNIN DOWN A DREAM.MP3
    0:/MUSIC/170190BPM/VARIOUS - 15 - MONKEY WRENCH.MP3
    0:/MUSIC/170190BPM/VARIOUS - 19 - DEAD RINGER.MP3

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    I did save VLC playlists and tried to add it in Garmin Express but it wont recognize it. Is there any solution to create playlists?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I haven't tried this myself with Vivoactive 3, but the way I used to do it in a previous watch on Windows was to use Windows Media Player. This is on my Windows 10 (not sure if it's on every version these days). I know I never use it anymore because when I fired it up just now it ran the first-run screens.

    The way you do it is to create playlists for your music, then find the Vivoactive in the sidebar and right-click to set up a sync then choose those playlists and it manages it for you. 

    Syncing playlists to plugged in USB devices is about the one thing WMP is useful for after you've found VLC.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    You can edit the playlists from VLC so that Garmin Express recognizes them: Just open the m3u file in a text editor and replace every "%20" with a space " ". 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Hi Cayenne,

    Did you ever figure this out? I can create playlists using DanC's tip from this topic (thank you, DanC!), but they're all named "New Playlist". :S