(RESOLVED) When moving a playlist into a folder, all songs become unlinked

[SgtSweetieBelle]

(Note that this is all being done in MusicBee. I'm not touching my file browser.)

When moving playlists into a folder, all songs become unlinked. I have to move it back to the root playlist folder for them to be rediscovered.

Seems like the playlist folder functionality doesn't update the relative folder paths.

[Mayibongwe]

(Note that this is all being done in MusicBee. I'm not touching my file browser.)

How are you moving the playlists within MusicBee?
Going to edit > preferences > library and changing the playlist path moves them fine for me.

[psychoadept]

How are you moving the playlists within MusicBee?

I think they mean they're using a playlist folder in MusicBee. That does create a folder within Playlists in File Explorer, so relative paths would need to be updated.

[tjinc]

It appears that, when using the default setting of mbp format, the paths are stored as absolute paths, so you can move a playlist into playlist folders without issue.
If you have changed the format to m3u then the paths are stored as relative paths, and are not updated when moving the playlists to a subfolder. Hence the links are broken as reported.

Perhaps the OP could confirm whether they are using the m3u format or not.

[Steven]

this fixes the issue for .m3u playlists (mbp playlists should not have this problem)
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

[SgtSweetieBelle]

Perhaps the OP could confirm whether they are using the m3u format or not.

i am indeed using relative m3u paths, as i have my music library synchronizing between multiple computers.

this fixes the issue for .m3u playlists (mbp playlists should not have this problem)
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

this worked! damn, you were really quick on the draw for this one. thanks so much Steven!