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#18 Relative paths don't work

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Safai Ma
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2004-12-10
2004-11-10
ning
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I've got several albums (Best Ofs, singles etc.) that
have playlists referencing songs that aren't in the
same folder as the playlist. These are referenced using
relative paths. For example:

..\Ooberman - The Magic Treehouse\Ooberman - Blossoms
Falling.mp3
Ooberman - Grey.mp3
Ooberman - 13.mp3

When I open these normally in Winamp, the reference
works fine. However, Album List doesn't pick up on it,
and it doesn't get added to the playlist. Fix please! :)

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  • Safai Ma

    Safai Ma - 2004-12-10

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    it works fine here... any detail you might had missed? like
    what got picked up, what didn't, etc...

     
  • ning

    ning - 2004-12-10

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    OK. Got it to work - the fix was to add #EXTINF lines to all
    my M3U files. So the m3u file format would be:

    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:-1,Blur - Beetlebum
    ..\The Best Of Blur\Blur - Beetlebum.mp3
    #EXTINF:-1,Blur - Song 2
    ..\The Best Of Blur\Blur - Song 2.mp3
    #EXTINF:-1,Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man
    Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man.mp3

    The relative paths now get picked up properly. However,
    since I use CDex to rip my CDs, every new m3u file with
    relative paths will have to be edited. A bit annoying but I
    can cope with it. Maybe I should look for a new CD ripper
    that produces proper m3us...

     
  • Safai Ma

    Safai Ma - 2004-12-10

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    I tried a m3u without #EXTINF lines, it works too...

    The only thing that might prevent the m3u to be read
    properly is that your m3u files do not start with #EXTM3U...
    is that the case?

     
  • Safai Ma

    Safai Ma - 2004-12-10
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