Universal Playlist Generator

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Maurice Helwig

Does anyone Know of a playlist generator that will generate a .m3u file
from a folder full of .mp3 files that will play on all mp3 players.

Maurice Helwig
 
Maurice said:
Does anyone Know of a playlist generator that will generate a .m3u
file from a folder full of .mp3 files that will play on all mp3
players.
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Not all hardware players will use playlists. If a particular player does,
it should play using *any* playlist as ]a playlist is just a text file
pointing to the MP3s.



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dadiOH
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Hello,
Here you go:
http://www.lucersoft.com/files/free/playlist.zip
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this one will not help for mp3 players as it always references
the mp3 files with their full path. Copying the files along
with the playlist makes the playlist broken. (Also the foreign
language tooltips are not very helpful.)

Here's my idea: Create a batch with this (in one line):

FOR %%a IN (%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9) DO dir /O /B %%a\*.mp3
%%a\%%~na.m3u
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Now dropping up to nine folders onto this .bat will create
a playlist for each of this folders, only containing the
filenames, so they will work also after moving the complete
folder. The playlist has the same name as the folder.

Known limitations: When the folder name contains a dot, the
playlist name will be shorten there. Filenames with some
characters (äöüß etc.) will break because of different encoding
on command line. Can be easily repaired in any text editor.

Regards,
Thorsten
 
Hy,
FOR %%a IN (%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9) DO dir /O /B %%a\*.mp3
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another limitation: I guess the "%%~na" stuff will only work
on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. For 95/98/Me you should simply
use "playlist" or alike instead.

Regards,
Thorsten
 
dadiOH said:
Maurice said:
Does anyone Know of a playlist generator that will generate a .m3u
file from a folder full of .mp3 files that will play on all mp3
players.
Click to expand...

Not all hardware players will use playlists. If a particular player
does, it should play using *any* playlist as ]a playlist is just a
text file pointing to the MP3s.
Click to expand...

Addendum - any playlist as long as it is a relative one.

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
Hello,


this one will not help for mp3 players
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I took the OP's request to be for a PC MP3 player - eg WinAmp etc.
I gather now he may have been referring to the variety we carry in our
pocket. Such is life ...I can but try to help ;-)
 
Thorsten said:
Hello,


this one will not help for mp3 players as it always references
the mp3 files with their full path. Copying the files along
with the playlist makes the playlist broken. (Also the foreign
language tooltips are not very helpful.)

Here's my idea: Create a batch with this (in one line):

FOR %%a IN (%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9) DO dir /O /B %%a\*.mp3

Now dropping up to nine folders onto this .bat will create
a playlist for each of this folders, only containing the
filenames, so they will work also after moving the complete
folder. The playlist has the same name as the folder.

Known limitations: When the folder name contains a dot, the
playlist name will be shorten there. Filenames with some
characters (äöüß etc.) will break because of different encoding
on command line. Can be easily repaired in any text editor.

Regards,
Thorsten
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Thankyou for your help. I have just tried the bat file and it works. I
have some 66 folders that I want to make playlists for that do not gave
absolute paths so that they can be played from DVD etc.

Maurice Helwig
 
I am used to command line interface and often would like to play the full directory on computer. It's not as easy to do as you would think, therefore I created the following file:

save the file playdir.bat in one of your main directories like WINDOWS (it should be in PATH)

playdir.bat file contents:
@dir /ON /B /N /S *.mp3 > playdir.m3u

Now, if you go to any directory and type playdir, it will create a playlist file called playdir.m3u with all mp3 files in the current and all subdirectories. If you want to create the full list of your whole music collection, just go to your main music dir and run playdir. Hope it helps someone!
 
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