songs from m3u playlists are not played

[Thorsten]

Hello there,

I use Clementine 1.2.3 with Ubuntu 14.04 on a dual boot system. When I import songs from a .m3u playlist, (playlist an songs are on my windows participon and I created it with the foobar player, participion is mounted and I load playliste from the file browser), they are in correct order in the playlist window on clementine.
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When I try to play, the files are scrolled through downwards, they filenames get greyish, but the music is not played. ANyone knows what the problem, that the files are not played, might be?

Thanks in advance

[Michael Fierro]

I would bet that the filenames in the .m3u don't match up with the actual Linux filesystem where the partition is mounted at. Can you provide a line or two from the .m3u?

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 3:27:26 AM UTC-7, Thorsten wrote:

 

I use Clementine 1.2.3 with Ubuntu 14.04 on a dual boot system. When I import songs from a .m3u playlist, (playlist an songs are on my windows participon and I created it with the foobar player, participion is mounted and I load playliste from the file browser), they are in correct order in the playlist window on clementine.

 

When I try to play, the files are scrolled through downwards, they filenames get greyish, but the music is not played. ANyone knows what the problem, that the files are not played, might be?

Thanks in advance

[timon...@gmail.com]

Good bet! I think that is exactly the problem. But what to do?

Here is an exerpt of my m3u:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:227, Camel Power Club - Crocodile
../../../../Users/soundmachine/Music/Swinsian/Camel Power Club/Camel Power Club - All tracks/01 Crocodile.flac

[Michael Fierro]

Whoa, talk about a long time between replies!  :)  If you go into Clementine's preferences, Behavior, look for "When saving a playlist, file paths should be:" and change this to Absolute. Relative paths give the paths that you provided as an example (../../../Users/soundmachine). Absolute will instead use the full path (/Users/soundmachine/Music).

Relative paths work well if you always start at a base path, e.g. your directory tree starts at /music and everything is located in directories underneath. My config on my linux box has my music drive mounted at /music. If I used relative playlists, assuming that the playlists are in that main directory - a pathname would be "BlackKeys/thickfreakness".

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[Michael Fierro]

Oh, to answer your actual question: you can run the playlist through a sed one-liner to output lines with the correct paths:

e.g.:

sed 's/\/music/\/Users\/music/' /music/playlists/Shower.m3u

This would print out the playlist, changing any occurrence of 'Music/Users' to '/Users'. 

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