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Exporting playlists for a Windows player
dskrt:
Hello,
How can I export from MC Mac a playlist which can be read and played on a MS-Windows player? My Multi-Media System in my car does not accept MAC generated playlists but accepts MC Windows generated playlists!
Might be a suggestion for development: Enable cross-platform exported Playlists i.e from MAC to Windows and Vice-Versa ?
Thanks for any answer
blgentry:
When you go to File > Export Playlist, notice that in there are a bunch of selections for Format in the middle of the dialog box. You could try something really simple like M3U, which is pretty universal. Or you could pick WPL, which is a format specific to Windows Media Player.
You might have an issue with relative path names. I'm assuming you're doing this so you can play music from a portable drive (USB thumb drive for example). You'll almost certainly want to check the box at the top of the dialog that says "use relative path names".
Good luck,
Brian.
dskrt:
Thanks for your answer, but the problem is not the relative path but the way MAC and Windows manage path definitions, Mac uses the backslash "/" and Windows uses the slash "\" in path names independently of what definition you use for your playlist. WPL is the windows playlist and so should use "\" and not "/".
blgentry:
I'm puzzled. Windows is the only system on the planet that uses \ as a path separator. Are you saying you have something like a microsoft Sync system in your car, and it sees thumb drives as having \ as the path separators? That seems totally backwards and wrong.
As a test, you can take one of your exported playlists and edit it with a text editor. Do find and replace. Find / and replace with \ . You can do all instances of / at once, so it won't take any real work to do it. If that fixes it, well, I guess that's a usable fix.
But it still seems like that should not be the case. I'll be curious to hear the results of your experiments.
Alternatively, you could have MC copy your files to your drive, all in the same folder. That way the playlists would have no path separators in them at all. Depending on how you view your music, that might be really messy. Just an alternate suggestion.
Let us know what you find out.
Brian.
blgentry:
Ok, I just did some research quickly. It seems that Sync *does* need to see \ as a path separator *and* it needs full path names... not relative path names.
http://boards.synccommunity.com/discussions/Welcome_to_SYNC_Owner_to_Owner/Media_Players/I_cannot_transfer_playlist_to_USB_drive/fordsyncmb/1690.1?nav=printDiscussion
Jeez. Sync is really a horrible system in my not so humble opinion.
The text editor find and replace should be a good workaround for you for now. If you need to do this on a large number of playlists, it can be automated with some shell scripting pretty easily.
Brian.
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