Playlist on NAS & Mac ?

[aspaceintime]

I just started playing with music playlists & I have a general question.

My Synology NAS has a relative Path and its different than my MAC. Do you make multiple playlists for each instance or do you combine both into one playlist with a row for each relative path? I'm Looking for the best way to proceed before I build too many.

MAC Path /Volumes/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

NAS Path /volume1/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

[Alandbush]

(24-12-2021 18:11)aspaceintime Wrote:  MAC Path /Volumes/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

NAS Path /volume1/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Using my Windows knowledge, I suspect you can setup a generic relative path as follows:-

/../music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Fingers crossed.

[aspaceintime]

(24-12-2021 21:35)Alandbush Wrote:  

(24-12-2021 18:11)aspaceintime Wrote:  MAC Path /Volumes/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

NAS Path /volume1/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Using my Windows knowledge, I suspect you can setup a generic relative path as follows:-

/../music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Fingers crossed.

I gave it a go with no luck. Thanks for the suggestion.

[simbun]

(24-12-2021 18:11)aspaceintime Wrote:  MAC Path /Volumes/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

NAS Path /volume1/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Those are the absolute paths. If you want to be able to create playlists that work across systems, you need to make sure the playlists and the music files share a common parent (its this parent folder that you'd copy/sync to other systems), and then you need to use relative paths in the playlists themselves.

Using your example above, if you had the playlist in the same folder as the album, the playlist would contain just:

Code:

01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

If the playlist was one level above the music folder, you'd need:

Code:

./Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

One level above again:

Code:

./Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

If you cd to the folder of your playlist, the path you'd put in the playlist is the path you'd have to type if you wanted to view the file permissions e.g. 'ls -l ./Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac'

Hope that makes sense.

[aspaceintime]

(25-12-2021 00:15)simbun Wrote:  

(24-12-2021 18:11)aspaceintime Wrote:  MAC Path /Volumes/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

NAS Path /volume1/music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Those are the absolute paths. If you want to be able to create playlists that work across systems, you need to make sure the playlists and the music files share a common parent (its this parent folder that you'd copy/sync to other systems), and then you need to use relative paths in the playlists themselves.

Using your example above, if you had the playlist in the same folder as the album, the playlist would contain just:

Code:

01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

If the playlist was one level above the music folder, you'd need:

Code:

./Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

One level above again:

Code:

./Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

If you cd to the folder of your playlist, the path you'd put in the playlist is the path you'd have to type if you wanted to view the file permissions e.g. 'ls -l ./Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac'

Hope that makes sense.

My playlist folder resides in same directory as my music. I tried all your examples to no avail. I have my music residing on my NAS with Music as the main folder name, then the artist folders like Fish, Samantha, in its own folder in the Music directory. The playlist folder is in Music as well with several playlists for radio stations and examples using the ABSOLUTE path I posted earlier.

I tried all these with no luck. Please show me the error of my ways...

/../music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

./Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

./music/CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

./Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

[simoncn]

../CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

[aspaceintime]

(25-12-2021 18:03)simoncn Wrote:  ../CD Rips/Fish, Samantha/Kill Or Be Kind (FLAC 96-24)/01-01 Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix).flac

Perfect. Thanks...Didn't know it was that easy!!