transferring playlists between computer and mobile

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transferring playlists between computer and mobile

Postby dreadstar » 22 Oct 2021 22:01

Hi,

I have been able to use the wifi transfer to upload media in bulk to my mobile from my computer. I was also able to create / save a playlist on my computer. Is it possible to transfer the playlist to my mobile along with the actual mp3 files? i don't want to recreate my playlists on both my computer and mobile.

Thanks

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Re: transferring playlists between computer and mobile

Postby Lotesdelere » 23 Oct 2021 09:52

It should be possible only if the paths to the files are exactly the same. Which is not going to happen, especially between Windows and Android, for instance.

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Re: transferring playlists between computer and mobile

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 26 Oct 2021 14:06

In principles, you can write a playlist containing only relative paths to the same media and it should just work.
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Re: transferring playlists between computer and mobile

Postby dreadstar » 26 Oct 2021 18:30

Thank you!

I was able to get the same "relative" playlist to work on my mac computers and my phone. I used this structure:

my-home-dir/mymedia/artist1/albumX/songX.mp3
my-home-dir/mymedia/artist2/albumY/songY.mp3
my-home-dir/mymedia/playlists/playlist1.m3u

where the m3u looked like:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:330,artist1 - songX
../artist1/albumX/songX.mp3
#EXTINF:347,artist2 - songY.mp3
../artist2/albumY/songY.mp3


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