Playlists

[simoncn]

(10-04-2013 22:54)Peter@57m Wrote:  To update this thread. Simon helped me identify an issue I was having - thank you Simon.
I run MinimServer on a QNAP Intel NAS drive. The directory I refer to in contentDir is /share/Public/FLAC which I set with MinimWatch on my Windows PC.
I use MediaMonkey on the PC to load, tag and generally manage my music files. Its also very flexible for creating playlists. I map the music folder on the QNAP to drive X on the PC. This is the standard Windows way of referring to a network drive.
Recently I have been using a script or macro in MediaMonkey to update all the playlist when I've done some update in my music library. The script creates all the m3u files.
The issue I was hitting was the track entries were created with entries starting X:\FLAC\xxx, so referring to the tracks in "PC" notation which didn't mean anything to MinimServer.
When trying different things I found that if I created each playlist individually the entries would start xxx (where xxx is the directory containing the artist). So this removed the problem of the Windows drive notation.
However the entries still used Windows directory separators of \ rather than the UNIX / used by QNAP. So a quick global replace of all \s with /s and all is now working.
Thought I'd update the thread in case anybody else hits the same issue with playlists

Thanks for this update. One more thing to add is that while working with Peter on this, I found some problems in the 0.70 code that handles playlists. These will be fixed in the upcoming 0.71 release.