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Creating playlists by folder organization

I have all of my music organized by folders and I want each folder to be a separate playlist, preferably with the playlist name the same as the folder.  Is there a plugin which can do this?  Yes I can move each folder one by one to the playlist window, but I have a large number, and then I have to rename each playlist.  This came up when I moved all of my "stuff" to a new computer.  I kept the same folder organization exactly.  Unfortunately I uninstalled FB from the old machine so I can not transfer the playlist files to the new one.  The play list files were well hidden.  Perhaps it would be a good deal to have FB keep the playlists in an open folder rather than hidden, so transferring music to another machine would be easy.
 

Re: Creating playlists by folder organization

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Hi there,

Not sure if there is a plugin to automate it, but you can just middle-click each folder to do what you describe. That might still be a lot of clicks depending how many folders you are talking.

Go to Library menu > Configure > Media Library > Album List and change the middle-click to 'Send to New Playlist' (and untick 'Start Playback...') > OK to save. Then Library > Album List > select 'View by Folder' and middle-click them. They should get named same as the folder.

Cheers 8)