Create Playlists from directory structure

[oscar.sal...@gmail.com]

Hi, i have a problem and maybe you can help me:

I have a huge music collection, every time i move my drive to another
letter or reinstall windows without backing up my Library, i have to
recreate my playlist sctructure, if i just import the whole Folder
witgh all my files, iTunes don't create a playlist for each folder, it
just add them to the library. Importing old library.xml doesn't work,
ir just create the playlist but they don't make reference to any file!
So every time I ended drag and droping like 2000 folders to create my
playlists.

I'm using Windows XP SP3 and iTunes 8.1

I was checking your scripts in your page looking for something that
let me recreate my Playlists from my folders structure.

I have all my music like this:

([] --> Means folder/directory)

[My Music]
[Genere]
[Artist - Album]
Track# - Title.EXT

Like:
[My Music]
[Electronic]
[Daft Punk - Discovery]
*.mp3
[Paul Oakenfold - Ibiza]
*.ma4
[Themes & TV]
[Kill Bill - Soundtrack]
*.mp3

So what i was looking it's a script or program that can create:
1.-For each Genere folder of my music create a "Folder Playlist" in
iTunes
2.-For each Folder inside of the genere folder in my music create a
"Playlist" inside of the "Folder playlist" just created in step 1.
3.-Obviously the files inside each Folder should be in the right
Playlist
4.-I don't use M3U u other playlists.


Any help or recomendation could be great.

Thank you!

[Teridon]

I don't really have much to help in creating the playlists. You could
use the script "itunes_find_by_location", but you would still have to
run it 2000 times. You could automate with a batch script, but I'm
assuming since you haven't done so already that you don't know how.

But once you have created your playlists, I would recommend that you
use the "itunes_backup_playlists" script to back them up. You can
restore them by importing them, and I think drag/drop will work also.
And, if you have moved your folders to a different drive, all you have
to do is open the backups in a text editor and do a find/replace to
fix the paths.

Hope that helps,
Rob

[oscar.sal...@gmail.com]

i'm going to try that script
thank you