28 Jan / 2008
[tech] Sansa Playlist Creator for Linux
Here is a bash script I came up with to create playlists on Sansa music player, on Linux
Sujee is a founder, principal at Elephant Scale where he provides consulting and training on Big Data technologies

4 Comments:
By Derek 09 Feb 2008
I was wondering if you have v1 or v2 of the sansa player?
By admin 10 Feb 2008
@ Derek
I have a E260.
System Version : 01.02.18A
By sansaUser 24 Oct 2009
Hi
I get the error
./sansa.sh: 38: Syntax error: “(” unexpected
if I execute your script
this is because of the function definition
“function debug_echo ()”
if I change the first line in the script to #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh, it works. So the shell sh on my system does not support ths function declaration.
Moreover, I get
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 843
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 8882
and some more iconv error messages, but I havent checked yet what’s the problem
Cheers
By admin 24 Oct 2009
@SansaUser
good catch, it is a BASH script. So changing
#!/bin/sh
to
#/bin/bash
is the way to go.
Not sure about the iconv errors, though.