Playlist m3u. import HELP!

[rossbardon]

Hi, I've created a long m3u playlist on my pc. the songs are all in "my music" on my pc hard drive. Open the m3u as a text file you see each song linked like so:

C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\artist\album\title.mp3

Now some what obiosuly, when this m3u is placed into the mp3 player (which has rock box), you can view it, select it, see the title of the songs but nothing plays and you get "(ERR)" preceeding each track title. I guess this is becasue the player cannot find any of the tracks as the links in the m3u. file do no exist?

therefore when people say u can you create and import an m3u playlist how do they do it and get it to work! The only way is to create the same directory structure in the mp3 player? (I don't really want to do that. Or am i missing something here? HELP!

thanks,

Ross.

[bluebrother]

There are various options:

- make your playlists use relative paths and replicate the required structure for those relative paths on the player
- use a tool that rewrites the playlist to use the correct paths
- replicate parts of the structure on the player and strip the leading stuff from the playlist (for example using a text editor)

m3u usually uses paths, so Rockbox needs those paths to find the files.

[AlexP]

Rockbox will attempt to strip one path at a time from your m3u, so if the end of the directory structure is correct, it should work.

For instance if you have
 
C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\artist\album\title.mp3

in the m3u, and

/artist/album/title.mp3

on your DAP, it should work (as I understand it).

However, if you have

/music/artist/album/title.mp3

on your DAP, it won't (as I understand it).


As bluebrother says, relative paths are also a good idea (so it starts from the directory you are in).

What is the directory structure on your DAP?

[rossbardon]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies guys. My mp3 player directory structure is:

G:/Music/Artist/Album/title.mp3

Now on the pc its (my original structure from my first post was slightly wrong):

C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Music\artist\album\title.mp3

So.......... if I change the "music" folder on the mp3 player too... "My music" it should work?

I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on

[rossbardon]

Hi guys,

Sucesss! Thankyou! Happy rock boxer now!

[Chronon]

Good.  I suspected that would do the trick.  But please modify your post with updates if no one else has posted a reply yet.  You should read the forum guidelines if you haven't done so already.  Enjoy Rockbox!!