- Moving music files wreaks havoc on playlists
- Posted by Mike C on May 23rd, 2006
When I move files around to different directories, inevitably it wreaks
havoc on my playlists. Does anyone know of any utilities to help with
this? I know it is best to keep them in the same location with the
same file name. However, eventually things get messy and I like to
reorganize.
Technically, what I would like it to do is to use some obscure field in
the tag and give every track a number. Then the playlist would refer to
this number, regardless of where the file is moved.
I could see a utility having the option to make a snapshot of your
playlists in which it would record everything and then a restore option
where it would look where those files have moved and update the
playlists.
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- Posted by dadiOH on May 24th, 2006
Mike C wrote:
Solutions...
A. Don't move them
B. Make new playlists.
C. Edit the playlist with Notepad to reflect the new location.
If you'd use an MP3 database program there would be no need to ever move or
organize them.
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- Posted by Razorback on June 14th, 2006
Mike C wrote:
You could use relative pathnames with your playlists. This would
require you to open each .m3u file in Notepad and delete the absolute
pathname. For example, if you have a folder called EAGLES with a
subfolder HOTEL CALIFORNIA, your playlist would reside in EAGLES and
the first line in Hotel California.m3u might look like this:
\\C:\My Documents\mp3\HOTEL CALIFORNIA/01 - Hotel California.mp3
To change it to a relative pathname, the first line in the file would
look like this:
HOTEL CALIFORNIA/01 - Hotel California.mp3
This may seem a hassle, but if you move your files around, it's either
this or rename your .m3u absolute directories every time you rearrange
your directory structure.
