Plug your Sansa Clip into the computer and open VLC. I then realized that an application I already had installed on my Mac would do the trick: VLC.
I downloaded a number of applications that claimed to be able to create M3U playlist files with mixed success. I saw the post linking to the iTunes Applescript however, my music sits on a separate server and I do not use iTunes to access it, so that was a non-starter. I was disappointed to discover that Media Manager does not exist for Mac, so went about looking for a substitute playlist creator. Thought this might be of benefit to others searching for a similar solution.
