Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 1.2.0 - importing m3u playlist(s)

[Kevin Digi <thunderbirdje hotmail com>]

hi

Thanks for the advice. It will be a hell of a job because I do have a lot of playlists/songs. It would maybe a nice feature in the future being able to convert windows-like paths?

Just a personal question: is there a better (more easy?) way to import the iTunes playlist (in contradiction to convert them to m3u playlists?)

Thanks

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:40:25 +0100
From: steven cote gmail com
To: banshee-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 1.2.0 - importing m3u playlist(s)

When I try to import an m3u playlist (made in Windows Vista - iTunes export tool), the playlist doesn't show up.

When I open the playlist in text editor, what I see is that the song a referenced by a 'windows-style path' like "C:\paththoMusic\musicfile.mp3". Maybe this is the reason why the playlist doesn't show up?

I was wondering if this is 'normal'? I'm just guessing, but maybe there it is possible to transform these 'windows-paths' to a smb-compatible (or even better?) one...?

Well, I'm not too sure about the way Banshee specifically handles .m3u files, but it definitely won't be able to find any files that have the full windows path named in the file. Before anything will work for you, you'll have to update the .m3u file to either use relative directories, or even better, the full UNIX directory (ie: "/mnt/vista/pathToMusic/musicfile.mp3").
 
Just change the example to the path that you mount your windows partition onto.

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