As you've discovered, Slimserver needs to "see" the paths to your files in a playlist in the same way as it sees the files in your Music Library.
So, if your Music Library is "\\server\Music\song.mp3" and your playlist points to the same song as "E:/Music/song.mp3", the playlist won't work. Slimserver also currently doesn't support relative paths for playlists, you have to use an absolute path. If you open your playlist files up in a text editor you will be able easily to see if the file paths need changing to match your Music Library setup. You can either use Find and Replace (depending on your text editor) and resave the playlist (then do a playlist rescan), or use a batch script to automate the process. In terms of playlist creation, the forthcoming new version of Slimserver (Squeezecenter 7.0 which is in beta testing right now), is step forward. It supports drag and drop playlist creation for example. I still don't think SC will ever be my preferred way to create playlists - and it's not designed to be either, but it's a lot easier than it was, and I can see myself using it to edit playlist which I wouldn't have done before. Personally, I mostly use MusicIP to create playlists, which can be integrated with Slimserver (and playlists from MIP get picked up fine on a rescan). Creating a playlist on the same box that Slimserver is installed on may well be a bit easier, but any program that will read your files and create an m3u file should work, if you're prepared to tweak the file paths manually in the way I describe above. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42654 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
