Directories in M3U files?

[Llorean]

It sounds like your real problem is that your podcatcher doesn't let you pick where to put the files?

[brianary]

It sounds like your real problem is that your podcatcher doesn't let you pick where to put the files?

I suppose that's fair. Being closed source, I don't expect a lot of flexibility, and their responsiveness to my questions and suggestions has been nonexistant. But until Rockbox adds a module to run a podcatcher on the host OS, I prefer this to something that requires installation on the host OS and doesn't store the data on the DAP.

[brianary]

For the time being, I built a bash and cmd script that reads each file named /playlists/*.dirs, each of which is expected to have a directory (/dirA/dir1) on each line. The scripts each build an .m3u file with the same base name as the .dirs file from the mp3, wma, ogg, and spx in each directory.

For anyone that is interested, here are the scripts (to be placed in the device root):

dirs2m3u.sh

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#/bin/bash
for dirs in playlists/*.dirs ; do
	echo Build: ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u
	if [ -f ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u ] ; then rm ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u ; fi
	cat $dirs | while read d ; do
		find "${d#/}" \( -iname '*.mp3' -o -iname '*.ogg' -o -iname '*.wma' \
			-o -iname '*.spx' \) -printf '/' -print >>${dirs%.dirs}.m3u
	done
done
echo Done.

dirs2m3u.cmd

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@echo off
for %%a in (playlists\*.dirs) do (
	echo Build: %%~pna.m3u
	del %%~pna.m3u
	for /f "tokens=*" %%d in (%%a) do (
		for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=\" %%w in ('dir /b /s "%%d\*.mp3" "%%d\*.ogg" "%%d\*.wma" "%%d\*.spx" 2^>nul') do (
			echo /%%w/%%x/%%y>>%%~pna.m3u
		)
	)
)
echo Done.

[ColdSphinx]

I've included all the audiofiletypes from filetypes.c

dirs2m3u.sh

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#/bin/bash
for dirs in playlists/*.dirs ; do
 Â  echo Build: ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u
 Â  if [ -f ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u ] ; then rm ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u ; fi
 Â  cat $dirs | while read d ; do
 Â     find "${d#/}" \( -iname '*.mp3' -o -iname '*.mp2' -o -iname '*.mpa' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.mp1' -o -iname '*.ogg' -o -iname '*.wma' -o -iname '*.wmv' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.asf' -o -iname '*.wav' -o -iname '*.flac' -o -iname '*.ac3' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.a52' -o -iname '*.mpc' -o -iname '*.wv' -o -iname '*.m4a' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.m4b' -o -iname '*.mp4' -o -iname '*.shn' -o -iname '*.aif' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.aiff' -o -iname '*.spx' -o -iname '*.sid' -o -iname '*.adx' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.nsf' -o -iname '*.nsfe' -o -iname '*.spc' -o -iname '*.ape' \
 Â          -o -iname '*.mac' \) -printf '/' -print >>${dirs%.dirs}.m3u
 Â  done
done
echo Done.

Edit:
dirs2m3u.cmd

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@echo off
for %%a in (playlists\*.dirs) do (
	echo Build: %%~pna.m3u
	del %%~pna.m3u
	for /f "tokens=*" %%d in (%%a) do (
		for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=\" %%w in ('dir /b /s "%%d\*.mp3" "%%d\*.mp2" "%%d\*.mpa" "%%d\*.mp1" "%%d\*.ogg" "%%d\*.wma" "%%d\*.wmv" "%%d\*.asf" "%%d\*.wav" "%%d\*.flac" "%%d\*.ac3" "%%d\*.a52" "%%d\*.mpc" "%%d\*.wv" "%%d\*.m4a" "%%d\*.m4b" "%%d\*.mp4" "%%d\*.shn" "%%d\*.aif" "%%d\*.aiff" "%%d\*.spx" "%%d\*.sid" "%%d\*.adx" "%%d\*.nsf" "%%d\*.nsfe" "%%d\*.spc" "%%d\*.ape" "%%d\*.mac" 2^>nul') do (
			echo /%%w/%%x/%%y>>%%~pna.m3u
		)
	)
)
echo Done.

[brianary]

Here are those changes, cleaned up a bit:

dirs2m3u.sh

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#/bin/bash
for dirs in playlists/*.dirs ; do
	echo Build: ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u
	if [ -f ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u ] ; then rm ${dirs%.dirs}.m3u ; fi
	cat $dirs | while read d ; do
		find "${d#/}" -regextype posix-egrep \
			-iregex '.*\.(a(52|c3|dx|iff?|pe|sf)|flac|m(4[ab]|ac|p[1234ac])|nsfe?|ogg|s(hn|id|p[cx])|w(a?v|m[av]))$' \
			-printf '/' -print >>${dirs%.dirs}.m3u
	done
done
echo Done.

dirs2m3u.cmd

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@echo off
for %%a in (playlists\*.dirs) do (
	echo Build: %%~pna.m3u
	del %%~pna.m3u
	for /f "tokens=*" %%d in (%%a) do (
		for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=\" %%w in ('dir /b /s "%%d\*.mp3" "%%d\*.mp2" "%%d\*.mpa" ^
			"%%d\*.mp1" "%%d\*.ogg" "%%d\*.wma" "%%d\*.wmv" "%%d\*.asf" "%%d\*.wav" ^
			"%%d\*.flac" "%%d\*.ac3" "%%d\*.a52" "%%d\*.mpc" "%%d\*.wv" "%%d\*.m4a" ^
			"%%d\*.m4b" "%%d\*.mp4" "%%d\*.shn" "%%d\*.aif" "%%d\*.aiff" "%%d\*.spx" ^
			"%%d\*.sid" "%%d\*.adx" "%%d\*.nsf" "%%d\*.nsfe" "%%d\*.spc" "%%d\*.ape" ^
			"%%d\*.mac" 2^>nul') do (
			echo /%%w/%%x/%%y>>%%~pna.m3u
		)
	)
)
echo Done.

[GodEater]

Folks, could I respectfully suggest you move all this lovely bash code into a page in the wiki please? It'll get lost if it stays here.