Playlists

[fredgroves]

You can edit the file by hand... The file path will either be /motorhead/ace of spades.mp3

Or the same with backslashes.

While forward slashes are Unix(or mac) and backslashes are windows it's hard to say. The mib unit is Unix but i don't know if it will understand either. Possibly it will.

The key is the leading slash, which means from the top of the file system.

Try it...

[Rudedog]

Will do, I think I'll keep it simple and test using a playlist with just one track from an album, that way I should be able to workout what might work...just a pain that I have to go out to the car each time to check if it works.

[Lordie]

Shame no one on here has gone from a Mac without having to buy a conversion app.

What do you need to convert them to?

[Rudedog]

On some of the sites I've searched they say that you need to use an app (Textwrangler) to save the file from a Mac that seems to add something making the playlist readable.

Unfortunately I run an old MacBook and the version of this app won't work so I'll never know if it's needed.

[Rudedog]

I've tried and tried and made slight progress but I think I'm now going to give up and go back down the route of just creating a 'playlist folder' containing duplicate tracks which I know works, there will always be plenty of room on the SD card, just goes against the grain...

Anyhow just for the update, the playlist below which sits on the SD and has the artists below it now shows the listed tracks rather than the 'no playable files' message.

BUT unfortunately from the list layout below it always only shows the last song, and then when I click on it I now see 'file not found'.

Oh well....

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:315,Quartz - French 79
/Volumes/VW Music/French 79/Joshua/Quartz.mp3
#EXTINF:429,The Year After - French 79
/Volumes/VW Music/French 79/Joshua/The Year After.mp3

[fredgroves]

In the text editor you are using, can you select to save the file as a Windows compatible file?

Windows uses carriage return and line feed, Unix (mac) uses just line feed.

I know this because we use some computer controlled production equipment and this messes that up all of the time.

In textedit choose "save as" and you'll find Windows in there I think

Oh and is your music really in a root folder called "volumes"?

[Rudedog]

I think I can change the save option if I go into the preferences... any clue to what I should look for as there is quite a long list, the only one mentioning Windows is - Western (Windows Latin 1)?

I'm pretty sure one of the versions I've tried had the /Volumes removed and went straight to the /VW Music (which is name of SD card), again I think the track was listed but still had the 'no file found' when I tried playing it.

Many thanks for taking the time to respond.

[fredgroves]

I think I can change the save option if I go into the preferences... any clue to what I should look for as there is quite a long list, the only one mentioning Windows is - Western (Windows Latin 1)?

Yes i think that was it.

And try just :

/French 79/Joshua/Quartz.mp3

[Lordie]

From reading the replies it seems like you're really overcomplicating a simple process. I assume it's not just a case of throwing a couple of hundred songs on a SD card (not sorted into any folders) and clicking play to play every song on shuffle?

If you have space on your current phone just put all the songs on there and play via bluetooth. You can start the playlist playing when you get in the car and use the buttons on the steering wheel to skip tracks. It's the same process as putting them on an SD card with Android phones or you do it via iTunes with iPhone

You could buy a cheap old iPod for like £20 and plug it in with an AUX cord. As thats not with bluetooth or USB you wont be able to skip etc with the buttons on the steering wheel. If you got a cheap old smartphone instead you can connect with bluetooth to get these buttons working.

[fredgroves]

No, this is about an actual playlist of a subset of your music content.

Eg a playlist of just live albums or your favourite songs or whatever. A list of things you collect specifically rather than random tracks from everything or everything by an artist etc.

Its a little outdated these days really, with devices these days making dynamic lists from stuff you often listen to or streaming services that do all of this for you and you edit your playlists online.

m3u files always were a bit of a b1tch to make - certainly if you wanted to keep the music files not all mixed up in a single directory.