Playlist / Direcotry slashes

[simoncn]

(17-05-2013 16:50)KoS Wrote:  yes i know, i tried it to with that tool and it works. but the usability isn't very great.... if i have 30'000 songs and i have to "find" them by browsing through metadata it is not very funny..... as everything is properly tagged and so a music library / media manager tool that uses the metadata is much more convenient to create playlists. i would be happy to have a web-based tool that i can put on the NAS and that is only used to create playlists in a simple manner.... and has not 1000 other features for e.g. editing metadata etc....

You could create your playlists using Winamp and then use a Windows file editing utility to convert the '\' characters to '/'. On Windows, I have used sfk (Swiss File Knife) for tasks like this. For details, see this page. You can make the '\' to '/' change with the command:

sfk167 replace myplaylist.m3u _\_/_ -yes

I'm sure there are many other similar utilities.

Quote:a upnp-related question: isn't there any possibility in the upnp standard to write data back to the media server? e.g. the control point "saving" a playlist on the upnp server? as far i haven't seen any product that implements something like that, so i suppose there is no standard for it? .... at least linn started with their songbox to have some possibility to save playlists that have been created with kinsky on their upnp server. so it is possible to create playlists "on-the-go", and use them on all control points....

The UPnP ContentDirectory service provides an optional facility for uploading files to the server (ImportResource), but most UPnP media server implementations and control points don't support this.

The Linn approach makes sense if your control point and server both support it. It's possible that I might investigate adding support for this in a future release of MinimServer, but for now you'll need to use the existing support for server-side .m3u playlists.