M3U file is being written to, relative paths could be used instead? this be possible? And could the user-defined 'Target Folder' setting for exporting playlists be made sticky by the way, rather than having it return to the default setting every time?Īnd apparently, m3u and m3u8 are interpreted completely different on my PC (Win 10). I guess if every audio file in the Playlist turns out to be on the same storage device that the resulting. Thank you so much for helping me, I'd like to leave this post up for anyone else looking for an easier way to do this.Īs you say though, the M3U export is such a basic format it's hard to get it wrong - other than the issue of absolute paths of course, but hard to see a way round that when music could be anywhere on the device.
#M3U VS WPL WINDOWS#
Used app called FPM to convert phone playlists to m3u format (this app is a godsend, btw), put playlists on computer, used notepad to create relative paths, and then windows media player still wouldn't open the files, VLC would open them, but there was no sound (weird), But then I stumbled across MusicBee and wow, this program is wonderful! So screw Windows Media player and VLC.MusicBee is a keeper!Ī note to Dev, this should not be so hard!!! I love Poweramp and bought it a long time ago, but in respect to exporting playlists, it is seriously lacking. (and with the right apps & programs, it's not that hard) Good grief this has been a royal pain in the ass, but I finally figured it all out. If you would prefer to use relative paths (which would make the playlist a bit more portable) then you could use the two-dots path modifier to go back up one directory level (from where the playlist is stored your D:\Playlists\ folder) thus:Īny further nested folders within your D:\Music\ folder can be used as needed, just as long as you use the same structure that you've used inside the Music folder on your phone's SD Card. If you have your audio files - such as Forrest Gump Main Title.mp3 - stored on your PC in a folder named D:\Music\ , then the text in your M3U playlist to provide an absolute path to that audio file would be: It looks like Android's bonkers SD Card naming system gone mad! I suspect you can lose 39384230-2d42-4646-3900-020000000000 completely on your PC, unless you have a folder named that anyway. Obviously I have to change the paths in all my playlists, but I'm not doing it right. I'm obviously doing something really stupid, but can't figure out what. My music is on my D drive on computer (as are the playlists, in a folder called "playlists") VLC or Windows Media player won't open the playlist You can even use the 'two dots' ("./") modifier to go up to a parent folder within a path line if you want to keep all your Playlist files in one folder rather than your music's root folder. You could try changing the playlist filename to M3U instead of M3U8 (probably won't make a difference though, the contents are still the same).įor most of the playlists that I want to swap between devices, I use relative paths rather than absolute ones. This means that the info defining the files is based from starting at the current directory where the playlist file is stored, rather than giving a full reference to the drive name and any top level folders. Might be worth changing the Linux style path separators ( "/" ) to Windows standard "\" too, but many programs cope with either. Poweramp will try to resolve mismatches when importing (it looks at the filenames and their containing folders, and tries to match those with its scanned music database) but I don't know if other programs do the same or are more strict about their path matching. They work fine for me in Windows Media Player, VLC, Foobar2000, Zoom Platyer.Īs you say, the paths may be an issue though, Your music needs to be in the exact same directory structure on both devices for them to work seamlessly.#M3U VS WPL FULL#