Importing playlists

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jim Balson

• March 17, 2023 22:16

I have MP3 and m3u files on 2 different share on a linux server. Each are made available to the Node. I can see both shares in the Blues app. when I reindex my music collection, and after it's done reindexing, there aren't any playlists  in the blues app. None.

It picks up the mp3 music files. But seems to ignore the playlists.

How does one go about importing playlists into three BlueOS app?

 

Thanks, Jim

 

 

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  Bjørn Ulvik

  Hi-Res

  • March 17, 2023 23:21

  Relative path, and your m3u files stored at the root of your shares should work
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  jim Balson

  • March 17, 2023 23:46

  Relative paths are what I have.

  Here's where the m3u's reside:

  birch: /u2/Media/Playlists > ll acoustic*

  -rw-r--r-- 1 balson balson 289425 Mar 17 15:25 acoustic.m3u

   

  Here's where the music resides:

  birch: /etc/samba > ll /u2/Media/mp3/10000Maniacs

  total 24

  drwxr-xr-x 2 balson balson 4096 Dec 30  2021 '[1985] TheWishingChair'

  drwxr-xr-x 2 balson balson 4096 Dec 30  2021 '[1987] InMyTribe'

  drwxr-xr-x 2 balson balson 4096 Dec 30  2021 '[1989] BlindManZoo'

  drwxr-xr-x 2 balson balson 4096 Dec 30  2021 '[1990] HopeChest'

  drwxr-xr-x 2 balson balson 4096 Dec 30  2021 '[1992] OurTimeinEden'

  drwxr-xr-x 2 balson balson 4096 Dec 30  2021 '[1993] Unplugged'

   

  Here's my Samba config for the Playlists directory:

  [Playlists]

      comment = Network Logon Service

      path = /u2/Media/Playlists

      guest ok = yes

      read only = yes

   

  Here's the first few entries in the acoustic.m3u file

  #EXTM3U

  #EXTINF:-1,Jubilee

  10000Maniacs/BlindManZoo/Jubilee.mp3

  #EXTINF:-1,Arbor Day

  10000Maniacs/TheWishingChair/ArborDay.mp3

   

  I can see there Playlists share mounted on the BlueOS app. But no playlists are picked up by the app though. Something I did must be wrong but I don't see it.

   

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  Bjørn Ulvik

  Hi-Res

  • March 18, 2023 09:31

  Something I did must be wrong but I don't see it.

  
  As I wrote, your m3u-file has to be at the root of where files reside. Relative path is from the root.

  If your playlist is located in "/u2/Media/Playlists", that will be treated as the "root".

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  jim Balson

  • March 20, 2023 20:11

  SoI got the Node to see a single playlist. I did this by copying the .m3u file to the the top level directory where all of my MP3's are located. At the top level where I usually keep my .m3u files and it doesn't see them. At least I got something to work though. I will continue to work on this when time permits.

  The one thing I had to do differently is instead of using a relative path, I depended the "/media/share/" in front of all MP3 paths. Either that change caused the Node to see the .m3u file, or simply moving it to the top level directory where all the music is located fixed. I'll figure out the details later though.

   

  Jim

   

   

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  jim Balson

  • March 29, 2023 13:14

  Yes, absolute path do work. This is now working when I copy  the M3U files to the Playlists share.

   

  Thanks, Jim

   

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