M3U Playlists imported from NAS have titles but are empty
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Hi, I took delivery of a M33 yesterday. Awesome. My sole input connection is ethernet. I stream from my NAS and Tidal.
Everything is working great except that the playlists imported from my music library have the titles of the playlists but are all empty. From the library I can see and access songs, artists and albums, so the sharing is working.
My music library is on a Synology NAS connected by ethernet cable. The playlist folder is a subfolder of the shared music folder. I have followed the settings outlined in the Synology NAS and Network Discovery Configurations page (see below). I have deleted and regenerated the indexing a few times. I have rebooted and then reset to factory settings the M33, and then started again from scratch.
All these procedures still produce a list of library playlist titles but zero songs in each. The playlist links are all up to date and correct as I freshly exported the playlists from MediaMonkey in M3U format. The same playlists and library set-up work fine on Sonos, which I planned to move away from.
If you have advice It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Hi wvfireguy,
The content of m3u playlist should be written in relative path (not absolute path). In my case, for example,
Fourplay/Heartfelt/juju.flac
This means "artist/album/track.flac", that's all. Of course, playlist.m3u is placed at root (not subfolder)
in your music library.
If you still can not, please show me the content of your playlist.m3u? (One track enough)
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I had the same problem before. I am also using Synology NAS but streaming through Blusound Node 2i. You may need to do a bit of cleaning up in your Synology DiskStation. Make sure the playlist doesn't exists in your Diskstation. Then re-index your DiskStation. Thereafter, you need to rebuild index from your Blusound navigation drawer under Help, Diagnostic.
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Export your m3u playlists to the "root" of your share, and not in a subfolder.
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Thanks. I cleaned up my Diskstation and moved the playlists into the root folder and then reindexed. Same issue... I still have titles of the playlists but no content showing.
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Did you export the playlists to the root, or just moved them?
Also a full rebuild could help since reindexing keeps the "old" playlists.0 -
Thanks for your help. I've tried both moving them and then deleting them and generating new ones into a fresh Playlist folder at the root level of the shared folder. Each time I did a full rebuild. Still the same.
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It works now! gonzaemon, thanks so much for the advice to export the playlist in a relative path vs absolute. I downloaded a MediaMonkey add-on that allowed me to modify the syntax for exporting playlists. It took a few tries but here is an example
Various Artists/American Hustle/12 - A Horse With No Name - America.flac
cheers
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I can confirm that if you are having trouble with .m3u playlists, using relative rather than absolute paths seems to work more often.
I can’t say that this is consistent behavior in BluOS, though. I was using absolute paths for a long time (can’t remember why), and never had a problem until recently. When I used absolute paths for just one album as a test case, it worked just fine. Playlists for multiple albums seem to require relative paths.
You don’t have to put the .m3u at the absolute top of your file system, just the topmost path of whatever tracks you are pointing to.
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