Use existing playlist to refer to OneDrive music files on iOS version of VLC

[martynl]

I have a large music collection in OneDrive, and several large playlists of those tracks. My playlists are in wpl format, but I have converted them to m3u format. I started with a small playlist with just a few tracks.

It's worth mentioning that the playlist contains relative references to local files. That is, the playlist is in a folder in the music collection called Playlists, and the file path is something like ..\Oasis\Definitely Maybe\...

These playlists play fine on PC VLC, but of course in that case all the files are just local files on disk.

What I want to do is make playlists that will work on my iPhone. The VLC on my iPhone can see all the OneDrive music files and they play fine. I can't open the playlist directly from OneDrive, but I am able to transfer the playlist via iPhone local storage to the VLC folder, and then VLC will see them and load them, but they show zero items, presumably because the relative paths can't connect up to the onedrive files.

I am happy to 'rewrite' my playlist by transforming the file paths to match what VLC needs to see. I have tried various combinations of relative and absolute paths without success. I also tried and failed to add the onedrive files to an existing playlist in VLC iOS - that doesn't seem to be an option I can find.

Does anyone understand what kind of file reference I would need in an m3u to refer to a VLC-sourced OneDrive file?

Thanks in advance,

Martyn

[Oldbentryder]

I could have written your experience. I've had the same results trying to do the same thing. I've tried moving my files off OneDrive and that didn't work.
I can't find a way to download from iPhone VLC the playlists created on the iPhone intact to see how they are constructed.
There are probably more path constructions to try, but if someone knew the answer, it would be nice to know what works.