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save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Hi

Is there any way to save a Extended M3U (M3U8) playlists with foobar?
(with header #EXTM3U and fileinfo #EXTINF)

I know there's a plenty software out there to do the job, but that's not the point here.

save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Reply #1 –
it uses relative paths where it can. if it doesn't:

-you saved the playlist to a different drive from where the files are
-the music is spread over multiple drives

also, what specification are you talking about? i think you're talking about extended m3u.

you could use foo_utils and the save text feature to create extended m3u files if you wanted.

edit: better solution below.

save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Reply #3 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
it uses relative paths where it can.

good to know
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-you saved the playlist to a different drive from where the files are
-the music is spread over multiple drives

nope, same drive -> absolute paths in *.m3u8
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also, what specification are you talking about? i think you're talking about extended m3u.

yes, sorry, that's what I meant.
Quote from: skipyrich on
foo_extm3u
http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:EXTM3...t_format_plugin

Thanks a lot!
It doesn't support M3U8 (Unicode / UTF-8) but that shouldn't be a big problem for most files.

save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Reply #4 –
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nope, same drive -> absolute paths in *.m3u8


you must be saving it in a separate folder then? if you save it at the root of the drive or any parent folder of all the music, the paths will be relative.

save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Reply #5 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
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nope, same drive -> absolute paths in *.m3u8


you must be saving it in a separate folder then? if you have it at the root of the drive or any parent folder of all the music, the paths will be relative.


just tested...
So relative paths only work in root of the same drive as the audio tracks.

Well, no big deal editing with Notepad++ in Column mode or Search & Replace

save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Reply #6 –
if you have 2 folders d:\music and d:\documents and you save it with relative paths in d:\documents, it will be looking for files under d:\documents\music. how would it know to look in your music folder without an absolute path?

save M3U / M3U8 playlist

Reply #7 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
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nope, same drive -> absolute paths in *.m3u8


you must be saving it in a separate folder then? if you save it at the root of the drive or any parent folder of all the music, the paths will be relative.

if you have 2 folders d:\music and d:\documents and you save it with relative paths in d:\documents, it will be looking for files under d:\documents\music. how would it know to look in your music folder without an absolute path?


same principle as in DOS era:

..\music

edit: you can try that manually or create a playlist with mp3tag in any directory outside your music files but on the same drive
I wish foobar would natively support this feature