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DavidHB · (This post was last modified: 13-06-2022 17:00 by DavidHB.)

(13-06-2022 14:56)tpmcghee Wrote: I guess playlists are the answer. I will look at what I need to do to make that happen.

Playlists - .m3u format - are a good solution, and have the merit of being in plain text, but they are a bit of a faff to create manually. If you use Windows, there is the ancient but excellent Playlist Creator application, originally written for XP but still working on my Windows 11 machine. The host website no longer seems to exist, but the most recent install file - 3.6.2 - is still available on respectable download sites.

With Playlist Creator, you simply drag and drop music files from your library into the Playlist Creator window. You can set the file path to be relative to your music library, and, if you are creating playlists for non-Windows machines (including NASs), you can also tell Playlist Creator to use forward rather than backslashes in file paths. Once you store the .m3u file in the folder tree of the MinimServer content directory and do a rescan, the playlist will appear in the Playlists entry in the MinimServer top level menu.

David