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Playlists help
Hi,
So far I'm really impressed with my Duo - it's all working well. Only one thing I can't get it to do!
I cannot get it to pick up playlists I create. This is the process I go through:
Export a playlist from iTunes as an m3u
Copy it into my music directory on the Duo
Change the path of the files to be correct.
What I have done now is created a small music directory - 1 album - and put a playlist in there, so that I can rescan quickly and try to get the playlist picked up.
I've checked the syntax in the m3u but it seems fine.
Here is the playlist:
It's called Evening.m3u, and sits at the same level as the music folder.
Can anyone help? Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong? I've played around with this a lot, ie changing the pathname to be absolute, changing the location, creating a Playlists folder, but none of it seems to work.
Is there any way to run this under debug so that I can see the parse problems?
I am using a Pure Avanti Flow and VLC on a Mac - both with the same results.
Cheers
Dinky
So far I'm really impressed with my Duo - it's all working well. Only one thing I can't get it to do!
I cannot get it to pick up playlists I create. This is the process I go through:
Export a playlist from iTunes as an m3u
Copy it into my music directory on the Duo
Change the path of the files to be correct.
What I have done now is created a small music directory - 1 album - and put a playlist in there, so that I can rescan quickly and try to get the playlist picked up.
I've checked the syntax in the m3u but it seems fine.
Here is the playlist:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:523,Elements - Lemon Jelly
./Lemon Jelly/Lost Horizons/01 Elements.m4a
It's called Evening.m3u, and sits at the same level as the music folder.
Can anyone help? Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong? I've played around with this a lot, ie changing the pathname to be absolute, changing the location, creating a Playlists folder, but none of it seems to work.
Is there any way to run this under debug so that I can see the parse problems?
I am using a Pure Avanti Flow and VLC on a Mac - both with the same results.
Cheers
Dinky
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- I've been looking at this same problem and found that you need to create 2 sets of playlists:
-Playlists for use by VLC etc...
These can be stored on the NAS or your Mac or PC, and they point to the location in the same way as any other file you access across the LAN.
I create these using an apple script: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/s ... tplaylists
I store my music on the NAS so the playlist file should look something like this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:247,Black Star - Radiohead
/Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Radiohead/The Bends/10 Black Star.mp3
Once you have your playlist files (it can take a few minutes to generate...) You make a copy of the files and change them to be used by ReadyDLNA
Open each one and do a "Find and Replace" to change the first part of the file path
In my example, find "/Volumes/media/" and replace it with "/c/media/"
This will allow you to change the path from the one your Mac uses to access the files, to be path your NAS uses to see the files
The playlist should end up looking like this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:247,Black Star - Radiohead
/c/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Radiohead/The Bends/10 Black Star.mp3
Once you have changed the files, save them and move them to a folder which ReadyDLNA can search. The playlists will show up when you browse using your DLNA client (PS3 etc...)
You may need to rescan media files or restart the NAS for the playlists to appear.
I hope this helps!
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