Relative path names inside m3u playlists : possible ?

[DavidHB]

(21-10-2016 15:23)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  I am just curious about this. I would like to know if I can permanently count on this feature with minimserver on windows.

Removing the drive letter prefix (C:, C:\ or whatever in Windows) makes the specified absolute path into a relative path commencing in the current directory. If that is what you want, fair enough, but it does take a fair amount of mental attention and effort to keep track.

The purpose of the folder structure I described in my previous post is to maintain a more or less consistent structure, which makes this process a good deal easier. If playlists are always in the same place relative to the top level music folder, the 'relative' part of the path to each listed track will be the same. Personally, I prefer the better known (and explicit) conventions of using '.\' to refer to the current directory and '..\' to refer to the parent directory to just omitting the drive letters. These also work in the Unix type systems typically installed on NASs (though with forward slashes of course).

All these conventions are part of the relevant file system(s); they are not features of MinimServer, which, like any other application, has to comply with them.

David