Playlists and over useability
AnsweredI am quite disappointed overall with the BlueSoind playlist features. I no order of importance:
Favourites:
- I am unable to see anyway to play all the songs that I have listed a favourites. It would be helpful to be able to do so
- there is no way to sort favourites they show up in chronological order as to when you marked them as favourite
Playlists:
- there is no way to sort a playlist, e.g. by song name, by artist, this would be helpful especially with long playlists ...
- an export/import function would be nice to allow edit/re-order etc. in something like Excel if BlueSound is unable to provide similar features within the BlueOS app
Overall Playlist utility is poor, especially when you have a large library ...
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Official comment
Hi Ian
You cannot sort Favouriites no, but you can play favourite songs by selecting the first one and letting Auto Fill do the rest...
Also if you are using an external local library such as a NAS or USB on the back of your player (with server mode enabled), .M3U playlists made externally will import with the Local Library Index.
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I concur.
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All of my music is on a SSD USB-connected to the N130. When the SSD is removed and contents modified, reindexing is often needed after reconnecting. It seems that BluOS playlists that had been created are then empty after the reindex, which is just horrible. Why can BluOS playlists created not be maintained or automatically updated as needed during a reindex so valuable playlist creation is not lost?
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Ian Kermack here, once again ... I re-iterate that the Favourites and Playlist features of BlueSound are truly lacking in functionality ... I so sincerely wish that there was a better way to manage/edit/maintain playlists and be able to play favourites randomly ... this is not the first time I have asked this question ... at the bare minimum I woudl so sincerely like to see a function that allowed export/import to Excel, or a csv format that would let me edit/organize playlists ... for me this is becoming a larger and larger irritant and I am sincerely wanting options ... my music is important to me, it is central ... PLEASE consider these requests ... my first request was sent two years ago ... I am clearly NOT the only person that cares about this ... Ian Kermack
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Hi Kevin
Our Quality Assurance team has been able to replicate your issue. It appears the N130 does not recognise the drive being re-inserted as the original drive those playlists were stored so cannot accurately cross reference the stored playlist. They have kicked it over to our Product Development Team to resolve in a near future update... I don't have an estimated time frame just yet on that.
The only workaround I can think of - and it's not a pretty one... is to consider an external .m3u playlist on the same USB drive that will be imported when the drive is re-indexed....
https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000464567
And yes we are also adding the spec to automagically re-index the drive as part of this report to our Product Development Team.0 -
Thanks, Tony. Can you refer me to a specific example of creating .m3u playlists and where to put those? On the USB-attached SSD, the music is organized as \artist\album\song.mp3
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It's in the Help Centre Article under Relative Paths. The playlists go in the root of the drive.
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Dear Bluos: I'm adding a comment here because I am having the same issues with playlists from my local music library stored on an external, powered usb drive being emptied after re-indexing. Can someone tell me that in the past year this issue has been addressed?
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Hi Peter
2 possible causes
1) The files being referenced in your M3U playlists are no longer there or have been moved
2) The M3U playlists use full file paths of C:\Music\Abba\Abba Gold rather than relative File paths such as .\Abba\Abba Gold or ..\Abba\Abba Gold and when indexed, the files cannot be located.
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Aloha Tony, thank you for your response. The playlists I'm having issues with are ones created within the Bluos program, not imported from outside. I built them using the play queue (adding albums, deleting unwanted tracks, organizing new sequencing, then saving). They worked. Then when I added new music to my storage drive and went through the re-index process, those playlists were still listed as Bluos playlists but they were empty. Just as described above a year ago. I tried the M3U process coming out of iTunes and just could not make it work (seems much more like something built for windows than macs). I guess I was hoping to hear that in a year some progress on this had been made.
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Hi Peter
Please select Settings, Send Support Request so our Support Crew may take a closer look.
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Aloha Anthony. I have sent a request, referencing this discussion. Thank you.
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