Import/Export Playlists

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Lasse Carthberg

• March 30, 2014 20:46

After using Bluesound for some months now I have an important request.

Make and option to import/export the playlists!

My setup is that I have library on a NAS with playlists up to 2500 songs.
In Bluesound I can only create/edit playlists on my iPad, but it takes like forever to create a playlist that is similar to what I have in my library – even a small one with 50 tracks of misc. artists/tracks is a time consuming task. And honestly, editing playlists on a real computer instead of a touch device is more productive.

All my playlists is Windows Media Player format and I have several times before written small scripts to modify the playlists to match misc. MP3 players.

However, doing a backup of the playlist only return an unreadable format – it’s not a flat text file.

Please make an option import/export playlists in flat textfile format – then we can make the required changes ourselves.

Make with it with 'no support' if you are afraid of getting too many requests for support.

We just need this feature!

Thanks :-).

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  Chris Jenkins

  • August 05, 2014 14:45

  +1. This is a 'must have' feature. I am considering purchasing some Bluesound Pulse units but without this feature this is non-starter. The whole point here is to share music and playlists between my 4 family members. If we have to create our own playlists on iPad/iPhone then this is slow, cumbersome and does not promote easy sharing. The ability to import M3U playlists (and export created playlists as M3U files) is essential. I do hope this is a feature that will appear soon; until then I cannot commit to a purchase :-(

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  Matthew Hadley

  • November 25, 2014 17:07

  This is critical for me as well. The Bluesound UI is cumbersome to recreate all of my playlists. In my view the IOS and Windows APP needs a lot of work. Granted these are first release versions but it is a shame to have great hardware and then the front end user experience does not match the engineering of the hardware

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  Aadidasu

  • October 17, 2015 15:48

  Playlist creation is really inefficient in Bluesound app. This is really critical feature. I wish I could just import the play list from my computer. The Product Manager at BlueSound needs to rethink the whole play list experience.

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  Gordon Delgado

  • October 27, 2017 22:17

  Amen!

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  Tony W. - Product Support Manager

  • October 30, 2017 20:09
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  Hi Gordon

  This is a bit of an older thread. M3U Playlist importing was introduced in later 2015. This past spring iTunes Playlist imports was added. If you are having problems with Playlists being imported during the Rebuild Index process, please select Help, Send Support Request so we may review your Player's log file.

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  JimmyMack

  • July 27, 2018 14:46

  I've tried modifying m3u playlists with very limited success. It should be much easier to use playlists from other sources without having to jump through hoops! I'm learning to navigate the app, but WOW, it should be much easier.

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  Gordon Delgado

  • August 09, 2018 00:27

  "Tony W" it sounds like you don't get it.

  To modify a playlist, you have to:

  • clear the play cue (stop playing any music)
  • load the playlist
  • edit the content
  • re-save the playlist

  Most people would agree that this is "hokey".

  Stating that you can "import" (not "export") is just argumentative.

   

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