Playlist / Direcotry slashes
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17-05-2013, 15:18
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Playlist / Direcotry slashes
Hi
i have minim running on a QNAP, but the playlists are being created from a windows machine and so the directory names are separted by backward slashes and not forward slashes. i use winamp to create the playlists (as it has a great media libraray functionality), and there is no option to define the directory separator. would it be possible to make minim less restrictive about the directory separator and let it accept backward slashes "\" as separator? greets KoS |
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17-05-2013, 16:40
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RE: Playlist / Direcotry slashes
(17-05-2013 15:18)KoS Wrote: Hi Translating '\' to '/' in a Linux playlist doesn't seem right to me. A Linux file path can contain a real '\' and I don't think it would be correct for MinimServer to override this. oddgravity Playlist Creator is a free tool that provides the option to create relative playlists with the correct '/' path separator. See this page for more information. I have tried this and it works well with MinimServer. |
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17-05-2013, 16:50
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RE: Playlist / Direcotry slashes
(17-05-2013 16:40)simoncn Wrote: Translating '\' to '/' in a Linux playlist doesn't seem right to me. A Linux file path can contain a real '\' and I don't think it would be correct for MinimServer to override this.i see the point, but i suppose there are many users that have a NAS with minimserver on it and are creating their playlists from windows-based tools (that often don't have an option to the change the \ to /). and i think i never saw a artist/title etc that has a "\" in its name? ;-) Quote:oddgravity Playlist Creator is a free tool that provides the option to create relative playlists with the correct '/' path separator. See this page for more information. I have tried this and it works well with MinimServer.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.... 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.... |
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17-05-2013, 20:43
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RE: Playlist / Direcotry slashes
(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. |
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18-05-2013, 22:52
(This post was last modified: 18-05-2013 23:00 by Peter@57m.)
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RE: Playlist / Direcotry slashes
Had a play with Swiss File Knife and got it working but it made me think I should really tackle the problem at source.
I use MediaMonkey to create Playlists and there was an existing script to export all Playlists. This one uses the windows assigned drive letter and the windows \ instead of the unix /. So I have now created a new script to export all playlists which uses the unix / and does not use the windows drive letter. As long as you save them in the root directory specified for MiminServer they work fine. script: the filename is ExportM3Uq.vbs in directory c:\program files\mediamonkey\scripts ' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ' This file can be replaced in one of the future versions, ' so please if you want to modify it, make a copy, do your ' modifications in that copy and change Scripts.ini file ' appropriately. ' If you do not do this, you will lose all your changes in ' this script when you install a new version of MediaMonkey ' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Option Explicit ' report undefined variables, ... ' SDB variable is connected to MediaMonkey application object ' Recursively process all playlists Sub ReadPlaylists( playlists, plst, prefix) Dim items Set items = plst.ChildPlaylists If prefix<>"" Then prefix = prefix & " - " End If Dim i, newplst, title For i=0 To items.Count-1 Set newplst = items.Item(i) title = prefix & newplst.Title If Not playlists.exists(title) Then playlists.Add title, newplst End If ReadPlaylists playlists, newplst, title Next End Sub Sub ExportM3Uq ' Open inifile and get last used directory Dim iniF Set iniF = SDB.IniFile ' Let user select the output path Dim path path = iniF.StringValue( "Scripts", "LastExportM3UqDir") path = SDB.SelectFolder( path, SDB.Localize( "Select where to export all M3U files.")) If path="" Then Exit Sub End If If Right( path, 1)<>"\" Then path = path & "\" End If ' Write selected directory to the ini file iniF.StringValue( "Scripts", "LastExportM3UqDir") = path Set iniF = Nothing ' Connect to the FileSystemObject Dim fso Set fso = SDB.Tools.FileSystem Dim playlists Set playlists = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary") ' Use progress to notify user about the current action Dim Progress, ExpText Set Progress = SDB.Progress ExpText = SDB.Localize("Exporting...") Progress.Text = ExpText ' Prepare a list of all playlists ReadPlaylists playlists, SDB.PlaylistByTitle( ""), "" ' Go through the list and export each playlist Dim i, iTrck, plst, fout, plsts, titles, title, tracks, trck, pwtlen, pwrlen, pwloc, pwtrack plsts = playlists.Items titles = playlists.Keys Progress.MaxValue = playlists.count For i=0 To playlists.Count-1 Set plst = plsts(i) Set tracks = plst.Tracks title = Titles(i) Progress.Text = ExpText & " (" & title & ")" If tracks.Count>0 Then Set fout = fso.CreateTextFile( path & fso.CorrectFilename(title) & ".m3u", True) fout.WriteLine "#EXTM3U" For iTrck=0 To tracks.Count-1 Set trck = tracks.Item(iTrck) pwtlen = len(trck.Path) pwrlen = pwtlen-8 pwloc = right(trck.Path,pwrlen) pwtrack = replace(pwloc,"\","/") fout.WriteLine pwtrack Next fout.Close End If Progress.Value = i+1 Next End Sub You also need to add the script to the scipts.ini file, my script.ini file contains [Statistics] FileName=Stats.vbs ProcName=ShowStats Order=1 DisplayName=&Statistics Description=Library Statistics Report Language=VBScript ScriptType=1 [ExportHTML] FileName=Export.vbs ProcName=ExportHTML Order=2 DisplayName=File List (&HTML) Description=Exports list of selected files to a .htm file Language=VBScript ScriptType=1 [ExportXML] FileName=Export.vbs ProcName=ExportXML Order=3 DisplayName=File List (&XML) Description=Exports list of selected files to an .xml file Language=VBScript ScriptType=1 [ExportCSV] FileName=Export.vbs ProcName=ExportCSV Order=4 DisplayName=File List (CS&V) Description=Exports list of selected files to a .csv file Language=VBScript ScriptType=1 [ExportXLS] FileName=Export.vbs ProcName=ExportXLS Order=5 DisplayName=File List (&Excel) Description=Exports list of selected files to a .xls file Language=VBScript ScriptType=1 [AutoIncTrackN] FileName=AutoIncTrackN.vbs ProcName=AutoIncTrackNumbers Order=10 DisplayName=Auto-&increment Track #s... Description=Sequentially numbers files Language=VBScript ScriptType=0 [SwapArtistTitle] FileName=SwapArtistTitle.vbs ProcName=SwapArtistTitle Order=20 DisplayName=&Swap Artist and Title Description=Swaps Artist and Title fields Language=VBScript ScriptType=0 [Case] FileName=Case.vbs ProcName=TitleCase Order=30 DisplayName=Case Checker... Description=Checks for correct capitalization Language=VBScript ScriptType=0 [ExportM3Us] FileName=ExportM3Us.vbs ProcName=ExportM3Us Order=40 DisplayName=Export all Playlists... Description=Exports all Playlists to .m3u Language=VBScript ScriptType=0 [ExportM3Uq] FileName=ExportM3Uq.vbs ProcName=ExportM3Uq Order=41 DisplayName=Exp Playlists for MinimServer Description=Exports all Playlists to .m3u for MinimServer Language=VBScript ScriptType=0 [ExportOPML] FileName=ExportOPML.vbs ProcName=ExportOPML Order=50 DisplayName=Export subscribed Podcasts... Description=Exports subscribed Podcasts to .opml file Language=VBScript ScriptType=0 Regards, Peter Peter ________________________________________________________ Linn Klimax DSM O&U & Solos, Wilson Benesch ACT C60s & Torus Linn Selekt Edition DSM Organik, Wilson Benesch P1.0 Linn Klimax Renew DSM, Chord Mezzo 75, ProAc 1SCs QNAP 559 ProII, Melco N1ZH, MinimServer, Linn, Lumin & Kazoo |
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18-05-2013, 23:06
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RE: Playlist / Direcotry slashes
oops, should have said, my QNAP drive where MinimServer runs, is mapped the windows drive X and the music files are in a directory call flac. So in windows notations the music files are in X:\FLAC\
In the script above there is a line which reads pwrlen = pwtlen-8 The -8 is to get rid of the X:\FLAC\ in the track filename. So you will need to alter the 8 to the length of the drive & directory name you use. PM me if you have any questions Peter ________________________________________________________ Linn Klimax DSM O&U & Solos, Wilson Benesch ACT C60s & Torus Linn Selekt Edition DSM Organik, Wilson Benesch P1.0 Linn Klimax Renew DSM, Chord Mezzo 75, ProAc 1SCs QNAP 559 ProII, Melco N1ZH, MinimServer, Linn, Lumin & Kazoo |
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19-05-2013, 09:09
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RE: Playlist / Direcotry slashes
(18-05-2013 23:06)Peter@57m Wrote: oops, should have said, my QNAP drive where MinimServer runs, is mapped the windows drive X and the music files are in a directory call flac. So in windows notations the music files are in X:\FLAC\ Hi Peter, Thanks very much for creating this script and sharing it! Simon |
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