'Autoplaylist' not writing to library

[thegoldenvision]

Not sure if I have gone about this the correct way, but I am migrating my collection into MB from iTunes.  I have a lot of autoplaylists set up in iTunes so have been recreating them in MB.  To do this I have been exporting them from iTunes as m3u files and importing into MB so I have a static playlist, selecting all of the files in the playlist then editing my Custom7 field (Autoplaylist) and adding the relevant tag (i.e. Running, Rock, Mellow etc).  Then when I create an Autoplaylist with the Custom7 tag as Running for example there are no files in it, however if I change the Autoplaylist source from Library to my static playlist the Autoplaylist works fine.

It would seem that when I am writing the Custom7 tag it isn't writing it to the full library, only a sub section.

[psychoadept]

Are the files in the static playlists you add actually added to the library?  Do they show up in the "music" node, ace if you open them there do you see your custom tag in the editor?

[thegoldenvision]

"Are the files in the static playlists you add actually added to the library?" - Yes, everything physically exists in the MB library.
"Do they show up in the "music" node" - Yes
"if you open them there do you see your custom tag in the editor?" - Yes

Hopefully you'll be able to access the screen shots below which should shed more light on it.


Tracks In Static Playlist
https://archive.org/download/StaticPlaylist/Static%20Playlist.JPG
Tracks In Autoplaylist
https://archive.org/download/StaticPlaylist/AutoPlaylist.JPG
Autoplaylist Setup
https://archive.org/download/StaticPlaylist/AutoPlaylist%20Setup.JPG
Track View in Static Playlist
https://archive.org/download/StaticPlaylist/StaticPlaylist%20Track%20View.JPG
Same Track in Main Library View
https://archive.org/download/StaticPlaylist/SameTrack%20In%20Library%20View.JPG

[psychoadept]

Hmm.  For those last two screenshots, the one with the autoplaylist showing and the one without, can you capture the properties panel of the tag editor?

[thegoldenvision]

Hmm.  For those last two screenshots, the one with the autoplaylist showing and the one without, can you capture the properties panel of the tag editor?

This question got me thinking and I realised what I had done.  The tracks in iTunes are only a sub set of the entire music library which is stored in a different place.  So the playlist file I was exporting from iTunes had a different physical path than the tracks in MB and although I thought I could see the tracks in the MB library they were actually the originals not the copies from iTunes.

I have just exported the playlist again, manually editted the path and everything worked as expected.

Thanks for looking at this for me.

[psychoadept]

This question got me thinking and I realised what I had done.  The tracks in iTunes are only a sub set of the entire music library which is stored in a different place.  So the playlist file I was exporting from iTunes had a different physical path than the tracks in MB and although I thought I could see the tracks in the MB library they were actually the originals not the copies from iTunes.

I have just exported the playlist again, manually editted the path and everything worked as expected.

Thanks for looking at this for me.

Oh, good. That was the only explanation I could think of for that behavior. Glad you worked it out.

Just out of curiosity, why do you have two copies of the same tracks?