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[slayer]

hi everybody,

i have this little problem - when i import a mp3 cd into media library the location of all mp3 files from such a cd is something like "(0x366AD6):\artist\album\track.mp3". the hex number is unique for each mp3 cd i import.
but when i create and export a playlist with these mp3s i can't open it and play it in winamp even though the cd is in the drive because file names in the list are in the same format "(0x34435EF2):\..." instead of "F:\..."

what am i missing or what am i doing wrong?

[xen-uno]

I've never had a problem w/ putting MP3's on a disk and including some M3U (WinAMP) playlists. My SlimX handle the lists just fine.

So you've got a CD w/ MP3's & M3U's, does MJ play off those CD playlist's correctly? I assume yes, but WinAMP doesn't, so there is something wrong with WA (and nothing that you have done).

Xenno

[slayer]

yes, mj plays any track from the playlist with no problems. however i'd like to be able to import the playlist into my ipod (portable mp3 player)...

[xen-uno]

This is how I do it (but this is CD based)

1.)  Copy MP3's onto a CD-RW (DirectCD format)
2.)  Create a playlist in MJ that points to those CD songs
3.)  Export the playlist in M3U format.
4.)  Copy the M3U to the CD

Works perfectly

Can u actually see the contents of your IPOD from MJ?

Xenno

[slayer]

although i installed ipod plugin for mj i haven't tried it yet.
i was hoping to use ephod to import playlists into the ipod. ephod is actually quite weak when it comes to playlist creation so i wanted to use mj features (smart playlists etc) to create and manage my playlists.

[xen-uno]

So when u bring a playlist over to IPOD, what happens? Nothing? How do u have the IPOD directory structure set up?

It's been my experience with my SlimX that it is not file location sensitive. That is, if the playlist points to files that are all in the same directory, then it strips out that location & plays the list just fine. I haven't experimented with this, but I think it would have a problem if some of the songs were in different dir's or subdir's.

Xenno

[slayer]

the problem is that ephod uses windows i/o routines to copy files to ipod using file names from the playlist. and naturally "(0x034AD4):\album\track.mp3" does not compute as a valid file path in windows. therefore ephod skips all such tracks from the playlist and nothing get copied to ipod.

[xen-uno]

Ok....

All these files that are on your IPOD are also on your hard disk (and in one directory), correct?

If so, create playlist that points to hard drive files (make sure they exist on IPOD too), then File>Export Playlist. Move M3U over to IPOD. C if that works.

Xenno

[slayer]

i just got a better idea:
i imported all 2000+ tracks from my ipod to mj (in hard drive mode it is mounted as h:). then i can create new playlist using mj advanced features (rating, smart playlists etc), export the playlists and use ephod to import them to back ipod. because all tracks in playlists will point to mp3 files that already exist in ipod the only thing copied to ipod is the playlist itself. exactly what i was looking for!!

now if i only could export the playlist to ipod directly from mj...

[slayer]

that wasn't supposed to be a smiley there, it was supposed to be 'mounted as h:\', this is a smiley :-)

[xen-uno]

>>now if i only could export the playlist to ipod directly from mj...

They're working on that

>>because all tracks in playlists will point to mp3 files that already exist in ipod the only thing copied to ipod is the playlist itself

Didn't I say that already?

Xenno