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OffTopic > What the hell, Verizon! Most obscure playlist format?

#173067 - Dwedit - Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:53 am

I have a Verizon "Razzle" phone (the TXT8030 made by Pantech).
After trying for a while to force feed it M3U playlist files, which it rejects outright, I finally try to create a playlist on the phone itself.
Then I go to look at it. It's just a bunch of 32 bit numbers.

Turns out that the numbers are the FAT32 cluster numbers for each file in the playlist!
Leave it to Verizon/Pantech to design such an obscure playlist file format, where you need to know your filesystem's internal structure to make a playlist! Or of course, make it on the phone itself...

At least they didn't use encryption.
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#173068 - Pete_Lockwood - Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:55 am

I hear ya.

I have a Dare on Verizon. What a PITA to get it to actually play albums in album order while also being able to sort by artist. If I couldn't write software I'd still be carrying around a separate MP3 player.
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#173082 - Dwedit - Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:11 pm

http://www.dwedit.org/programs/verizon_razzle_playlist_maker.php

Finally finished the playlist maker tool. Contains Chishm's GBA_NDS_FAT code to find out the cluster numbers for each file.
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