Device playlists in other formats

[Carsten]

First of all, so far a great job Steven.

So i tried anything out and can now say that my ZEN Style 100 MP3-Player himself creats a other form of .m3u playlists.

e.g.

\MUSIC\KINGSO~1\AHASHA~1\02-KIN~1.MP3
\MUSIC\KINGSO~1\AHASHA~1\06-THE~1.MP3
\MUSIC\KINGSO~1\BECAUS~1\02-CHA~1.MP3
\MUSIC\KINGSO~1\BECAUS~1\03-ONC~1.MP3
\MUSIC\KINGSO~1\BECAUS~1\04-MCF~1.MP3
\MUSIC\KINGSO~1\BECAUS~1\08-RAG~1.MP3

which i can also play with MB, directly form the player.

A playlist created with MB says by the same folder structure

e.g.

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:145,King Of The Rodeo
\Music\Kings Of Leon\Aha Shake Heartbreak\02 - King Of The Rodeo.mp3
#EXTINF:176,Charmer
\Music\Kings Of Leon\Because Of The Times\02 - Charmer.mp3
#EXTINF:201,On Call
\Music\Kings Of Leon\Because Of The Times\03 - On Call.mp3
#EXTINF:189,McFearless
\Music\Kings Of Leon\Because Of The Times\04 - McFearless.mp3

The Player doesn't find any titles in both possible playlist formats.


Do you see any opportunity for me to create such playlist's?

Carsten

[Steven]

if i understand correctly you are saying you device can play the playlist tracks but doesnt show the track title when playing - is that correct? MusicBee can save playlists to a number of formats which can be set in the device settings panel but you need to find out which format is best supported by the device and tell me what that is.
Many devices read the tags from the MP3 files rather than getting the track title from the playlist

[Carsten]

Well, the playlist format the player creates is the same (.m3u) as MB creates. But the player uses a other syntax ( he creates shortcuts of all name, look at my opening post). MB can also play the player created playlists when he is connected across usb. He just needs an option to create playlists with that syntax. The .ASX format simple doesn't work on it.

[Steven]

MusicBee does already support that format (extended M3U) and in the device settings screen/ playlist storage section you can choose the playlist format. However i see its not been included in that screen.

I will add it in, but in the interim you can export playlists from MusicBee using that format and manually copy the playlist yourself.
See Preferences/ Library/ playlists/ exported playlists and choose M3U(#EXT)
then when you right click on a playlist in the left navigator/ List/ Export as External Playlist then MusicBee will create a playlist in that format

[Steven]

i've now included the playlist type in the device settings panel.
its in the next MusicBee update

[Carsten]

thanks a lot Steven!

[Steven]

this version includes the change:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fg6lbdy81co7lh9

just unzip and copy/overwrite musicbee.exe where it is installed

[Carsten]

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