Finds Playlists but not songs in them?

[JackovSpades]

The Roku finds the Playlists I create fine, but there are no songs in them.
I use Quintessential to create the Playlist in m3u, and I think it should work!

I’m sure its something I have not done, but any ideas what?

(The people who created Windows Media 11 should be fired, and using iTunes was just useless if you have a network). Firefly worked first time it was connected.

[rpedde]

@JackovSpades wrote:

I’m sure its something I have not done, but any ideas what?

Try using absolute paths, rather than relative (or relative instead of absolute, if you were before). Some playlist editors do absolute paths without the drive letter, which makes firefly mad — it’s an open bug.

Other than that, it should probably work. Oh. If they have non-latin characters in the filename, make sure the m3u file is utf-8 encoded.

— Ron

[JackovSpades]

Hi

This is what a Playlist ‘Adam 4’ looks like (one song only in it)

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:236,Adam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier
r:Music DownloadsNewAdam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier.mp3

Having the Drive ‘r’ in or out makes no difference. The Roku can find every playlist made i.e. ‘Adam 4’, but cannot locate any of the actual songs in them, just says <0 items>.

I think the m3u file is utf-8 encoded, I dont see how it would not be.

Any other ideas..

[JackovSpades]

I used ‘m3uEditor’ (a free programme). Dragged and dropped the music file, saved, and it created a playlist WITHOUT the following:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:236,Adam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier

only had in it the line:

r:Music DownloadsNewAdam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier.mp3

IT WORKS…………..
😆

Only took me three hours to work it out, but it should help many other people with same problem.

[rpedde]

@JackovSpades wrote:

I used ‘m3uEditor’ (a free programme). Dragged and dropped the music file, saved, and it created a playlist WITHOUT the following:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:236,Adam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier

only had in it the line:

r:Music DownloadsNewAdam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier.mp3

IT WORKS…………..
😆

Only took me three hours to work it out, but it should help many other people with same problem.

Hrm. Should have worked anyway.

What version are you using?

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