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| mpd [2023/08/20 11:44] – [Haven't Tried] Maximum MPD rjt | mpd [2024/03/02 18:06] (current) – [Playlists] link to plaintext rjt |
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| Got stuck on this for a bit because it's weird. | Got stuck on this for a bit because it's weird. |
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| The ''playlist_directory'' you configure is meant for [[playlists|playlists]] made with MPD. Deceptively, it uses ''.m3u'' files, but they're not standard (m3u is barely a standard...): They're a plain list of file paths relative to configured ''music_directory'', they work just fine with [[Unicode]], they don't use the ''#EXTM3U'' header, and if you create them outside of MPD and put them here they won't read the first line. | The ''playlist_directory'' you configure is meant for [[playlists|playlists]] made with MPD. Deceptively, it uses ''.m3u'' files, but they're not standard (m3u is barely a standard...): They're a [[plaintext|plain]] list of file paths relative to configured ''music_directory'', they work just fine with [[Unicode]], they don't use the ''#EXTM3U'' header, and if you create them outside of MPD and put them here they won't read the first line. |
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| You can, however, load many kinds of playlists from other directories, but I've had mixed results with this: [[MPDroid]] doesn't seem to see playlists in ''music_directory'', so I've only had luck using absolute paths; [[ncmpcpp]] shows playlists from ''playlist_directory'' and ''music_directory'' on the browse page, and the ones in ''music_directory'' work fine with relative paths. | You can, however, load many kinds of playlists from other directories, but I've had mixed results with this: [[MPDroid]] doesn't seem to see playlists in ''music_directory'', so I've only had luck using absolute paths; [[ncmpcpp]] shows playlists from ''playlist_directory'' and ''music_directory'' on the browse page, and the ones in ''music_directory'' work fine with relative paths. |
