How to export current playlist in *.m3u Format with relative pathnames?

[pstein]

Assume I adjusted a playlist to my preferences.

Now I want to export it in *.m3u format

How can I achieve this?

How can I export it with RELATIVE path names?

Peter

[phred]

Two easy steps:
1- Preferences > Library > playlists > exported playlists: [set path to destination directory] > set playlist format > use relative file paths

2a- Right-click on the playlist in question > export playlist
OR
2b- Rick-click on the playlist in question > edit playlist > automatically export a static copy

Note that 2b will automatically export every time a change is made to the playlist

[pstein]

Ok, thank you.

That means there is only ONE "export playlist" folder for ALL playlists?
No export folder per Playlist possible?


If someone like me has divided his thousands of *.mp3 files into different subfolders (to get a better overview) and wants to
put the *.m3u Playlist into the corresponding subfolder (where all containing *.mp3 files are in), then this is not possible.

Correct?

Peter

[phred]

All I can tell you is I have over 34,000 tracks and over 80 playlists. All my exported playlists are in one directory and that doesn't present any issues for me.

I suppose you can change the 'save to' directory for each playlist, but then you can't take advantage of the 'auto-export' feature.

Remember - a playlist file is nothing more than a text file which points to the location of each track within the playlist. I really don't see why you want each playlist in its own directly. Can you expand on the purpose of doing this?

[pstein]

I really don't see why you want each playlist in its own directly. Can you expand on the purpose of doing this?

Ok, lets describe it:

Assume the MusicBee Exported Playlist directory is in

D:\tools\music\MusicBee\Library\Exported Playlists\

and I the *.mp3 songs for a certain artist are in

D:\archive\music\latin\marquess\

All the links in the playlist
  D:\tools\music\MusicBee\Library\Exported Playlists\marquess.m3u
point to the absolute or relative path D:\archive\music\latin\marquess\

It works as long as I use the music only on the local computer


Now occasionally I copy certain artist folders to other computers like
- NAS media file server
- Linux notebook
- Smartphone
- Tablet

the new location over there is completely different from the local one.

If I copy D:\tools\music\MusicBee\Library\Exported Playlists\marquess.m3u
to the second computer then its completely useless since it points to non-existing directories.

If the playlist could be exported to the individual artists folder then it could be done with RELATIVE pathes.

So the Playlist marquess.m3u would contain always *.mp3 file in the current folder and could be read/load succesfully on other computer (with other audio players).

So most preferable when I load in MusicBee a Playlist from arbitrary location like D:\foobar\stuff\sample.m3u
then auto-export should save it (when playlist is changed) to exactly its original location.

Can this be implemented?
It shouldn't be difficult.

Thank you
Peter