My playlists (M3U) won't work.

[Ravishal]

Hello, I'm new to this software having formerly used SAM3 and currently using ZaraRadio. In Zara I primarily use 3 playlists in the M3U format, 5,000 ; 4,000 & 1,000 tracks in length respectively. These worked great in SAM and Zara but they took a long time to create.

I've already scanned my media folders and have created my Music Library. I've then created a few tasks in the Scheduler incorporating those playlists, however the music does not play. It will tear through 100 files without a single peep. I get an "Error Code = 2 (can't open file)" for all of them.

What's going on? How can I import these playlists? I would terribly dread creating all 3 playlists with their thousands of entries.  :-\

 

[djsoft]

Please send one of those playlists to the support@djsoft.net for analysis. Maybe we'll convert them to a usable format or modify RadioBOSS so it'll be able to read it correctly.

 

[Ravishal]

Email sent with one file attached

 

[djsoft]

Thanks. The playlist using relative paths, and for some reason RadioBOSS doesn't process it correctly. This error will be fixed within several days.

 

[Ravishal]

Ahh, I see what you mean. I opened one in Notepad and saw that it did not have the drive letter present (ie., D in the song path.

#EXTINF:305,Aldo Nova - Fantasy
\Music\MP3\Various Vocals\A-D\Aldo Nova - Fantasy.mp3

Hmm, I wonder.... If I used "Find and Replace" in notepad I could find every instance of \Music\MP3 and replace it D:\Music\MP3 to get the actual path?

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OK I did that and the playlists work correctly with RadioBoss!
As a work around when I edit playlists with WinAmp I need to save them to another drive or partition to insure the playlist has the full, actual path.