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LonWar

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Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« on: November 29, 2004, 02:40:44 pm »

Hello, Before I do this the old fashioned manual way...

Is there a way to create a Playlist automatically? I want to create 1 playlist per Artist.

Am I in luck, or do I have to do this one by one?



Thanks,
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2004, 03:35:32 pm »

why would you want to?
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2004, 07:32:01 pm »

why would you want to?

I am starting to make cd's for my car. 1 cd 1 artist.

If I start with 1 playlist per artist,. it will help narrow the work down.
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2004, 07:47:26 pm »

MP3 Folder Playlists will create unique playlists for each folder under a parent folder. Ex: I have all my albums in their own folder under group name, under "MyMusic". MP3 Folder Playlists will recursively go through each subdirectory and put a playlist in each folder of music.
http://kanjischool.com/mp3folders/

MP3Tag will also build a playlist for whatever is below the folder you are pointing at. Different than above. Ex: If I point it at the folder "The Beatles", it will build a single playlist for all my Beatles albums.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2004, 09:38:47 pm »

Or you could just run
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ls -R /music/foo/ > /music/foo/playlist.m3u
Oh wait.  The Windows (command line) shell is a piece of poo.   ;)

You could use Cygwin and then run this command though.  You could quite easily write a script that auto generates these for whatever directories you want and have it run once a day, on command, or every 10 minutes.

Check out http://www.cygwin.com/ it gives you *NIX-like shell functionality on windows (for free).
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2004, 10:13:32 am »

Well, the Windows shell is still a piece of poo, but it turns out that you can do this from the command line.

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xcopy /L c:\path\to\files\*.mp3 > c:\path\to\playlist.m3u
[sarcasm]Why ever wouldn't I have thought to use a copy command to list files?[/sarcasm]

It adds a total files count to the end of the file, but I bet that wont be a problem.  You could test it.

Oh yeah, and I realized that my "ls" command above won't work because it sorts the files into groups.  There is definately a way to do it with ls, I just don't remember the command right now (I've used it before).  If anyone needs it I'm sure I could remember (or look it up) if requested.
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2004, 10:44:50 am »

glynor, I'm a big fan of Cygwin, too, so don't take this to mean that I am endorsing the use of the DOS prompt, but still..

(linux)
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ls -R /music/foo/ > /music/foo/playlist.m3u
equals

(dos)
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dir /S d:\music\foo > d:\music\foo\playlist.m3u

Using xcopy is kind of overkill. ;)
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2004, 10:50:31 am »

As an update in response to your "ls" comments, "dir /S" will not group things as long as you use the /b parameter:

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dir /S /B d:\music\foo > d:\music\foo\playlist.m3u

For linux, you would probably want to use find instead.
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2004, 10:52:04 am »

Yeah, but ls -R (nor dir /S) doesn't work either, because it sorts the recursive listing in this format:

c:\path\to\folder\subfolder\:
file1
file2
file3
file4
etc.

This of course won't work for a m3u.  You need them listed in this format:
c:\path\to\folder\subfolder\file1
c:\path\to\folder\subfolder\file2
c:\path\to\folder\subfolder\file3
c:\path\to\folder\subfolder\file4
etc

Now I'm irritated because I know I figured this out once (to get a listing of all of my music files) on my linux server.  Erg.  I will figure it out again!!
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2004, 11:09:54 am »

I figured it out.

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find /path/to/files -name "*.mp3" -print > playlist.m3u
This does it perfectly without the listing of the number of files or doing the weirdness that ls -R does.  You can also modify the find to change the search order, limit it by modified dates, and all kinds of other cool stuff.
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Re:Creating Playlists (Automatically?)
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2004, 11:26:03 am »

I was so determined to figure it out that I didn't see your second posting before I added mine (you must have typed faster).  Thanks Omni!
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