New Playlists (1 Viewer)

[mapleshade]

Although I haven't spent too much time trying to figure this out in the program, I've looked through the support and haven't found an answer. I want to create several playlists, preferably without doing so within media portal (selecting individual songs or albums).

So I have 2 questions:
1) What is the standard method of creating playlists?
2) It appears that playlists are stored in a folder in My Documents by default. Can a playlist be written as a text document and placed in the folder? If so, what's the procedure for this?

I would also appreciate links to the information if someone knows where this was already covered.

 

[hwahrmann]

1. Standard method for creating Playlists is within MP.
Right click on Item (Song / Artist / Album) and choose "Add to Playlist"
Then you switch to playlist view and select the Save button, giving it a name.
Now you have in your Playlist Folder, see below, a sample playlist, which you can modify with any editor.
It is in Extm3u Format:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,Beatles, The - Because
D:\Eigene Musik\Beatles, The\Love\01 - Because.mp3
#EXTINF:0,Beatles, The - Eleanor Rigby / Julia
D:\Eigene Musik\Beatles, The\Love\04 - Eleanor Rigby _ Julia.mp3

but you can just write the filename itself in the file:

D:\Eigene Musik\Beatles, The\Love\01 - Because.mp3
D:\Eigene Musik\Beatles, The\Love\04 - Eleanor Rigby _ Julia.mp3

Both method work. Use any Text Editor / program to create the playlist.

2. Configuration -> Music -> Playlist Settings Tab
allows choosing any folder for Playlist storage

 

[mapleshade]

Perfect. Thanks a lot. I also like the way you've named your Beatles folder Beatles, The. That may be the way to go with all my The Bands.

The community here is another reason I've switched from MythTV to Media Portal. Plus, I love talking to all these Europeans.