Playlist problems

[cosmo]

Hi,

I’m using version 1372 and have problems with some m3u playlists. Firefly finds the playlists but when it try to play them, I get a no entries message, while other music servers play them without problems.

Analysing the not working m3u files I found the following 2 different kind in my library that Firefly refuses to play:

1.) The path information is all in lower case letters while the actual path has also upper case letter. For example

Playlist: d:musicduran duran – a view to a kill.mp3
Path: D:MusicDuran Duran – A View to a Kill.mp3

2.) These are playlist generated with Winamp having the following format

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:218,Fleetwood Mac – Tell Me Lies
MusicFleetwood MacFleetwood Mac – Tell Me Lies.mp3

Would be cool if you could fix this… 😉

Cosmo

[rpedde]

@cosmo wrote:

Playlist: d:musicduran duran – a view to a kill.mp3
Path: D:MusicDuran Duran – A View to a Kill.mp3

Go into the web admin config interface and set “Case Sensitive” to “No”, and that should fix this one.

2.) These are playlist generated with Winamp having the following format

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:218,Fleetwood Mac – Tell Me Lies
MusicFleetwood MacFleetwood Mac – Tell Me Lies.mp3

That’s harder, but I made a ticket for it. In the meantime, you can fix it with just about any playlist editor, I’m sure.

— Ron

[wolfzell]

@cosmo wrote:

2.) These are playlist generated with Winamp having the following format

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:218,Fleetwood Mac – Tell Me Lies
MusicFleetwood MacFleetwood Mac – Tell Me Lies.mp3

My playlists are generated with MediaMonkey and they have the same format.

Interesting bit: If a file has foreign characters, the entry looks like that:

#EXTINFUTF8:232,La Vienta РNi̱o
#EXTINF:232,La Vienta – Niño
#UTF8:La VientaForgotten Romance5 РLa Vienta РNi̱o.flac
La VientaForgotten Romance5 – La Vienta – Niño.flac

Now Firefly (svn-1400) does not read my m3u-files. Is that still caused by that format or is there another thing I am doing wrong? (Yes, process_m3u is set to 1)

bye
Wolfgang

[rpedde]

@wolfzell wrote:

Interesting bit: If a file has foreign characters, the entry looks like that:

#EXTINFUTF8:232,La Vienta РNi̱o
#EXTINF:232,La Vienta – Niño
#UTF8:La VientaForgotten Romance5 РLa Vienta РNi̱o.flac
La VientaForgotten Romance5 – La Vienta – Niño.flac

Now Firefly (svn-1400) does not read my m3u-files. Is that still caused by that format or is there another thing I am doing wrong? (Yes, process_m3u is set to 1)

It’s an encoding issue. the server wants them in utf-8. Can you set your playlist generator to output in utf-8?

[wolfzell]

@rpedde wrote:

It’s an encoding issue. the server wants them in utf-8. Can you set your playlist generator to output in utf-8?

Thanx for the hint. Just had a look, yes I can, and I had (I guess it was the default). Unchecked the option and the same entry looks like that now:

#EXTINF:232,La Vienta – Niño
La VientaForgotten Romance5 – La Vienta – Niño.flac

Now Firefly is reading the m3us, but not files with foreign characters. Logfile says:

2006-10-19 12:38:51 (00000400): Playlist entry La Vienta/Forgotten Romance/05 – La Vienta – Niño.flac bad: Path not found

So only songs with normal ASCII characters can be used.

I just checked, I can still play that song on the Soundbridge without playlists.

Just discovered another problem, but I will post that in an extra thread.

bye
Wolfgang

[rpedde]

@wolfzell wrote:

@rpedde wrote:

It’s an encoding issue. the server wants them in utf-8. Can you set your playlist generator to output in utf-8?

Thanx for the hint. Just had a look, yes I can, and I had (I guess it was the default). Unchecked the option and the same entry looks like that now:

Seems like it should work if the file is utf-8 encoded. Is it possible you could zip up both the referenced file and the playlist that references it and email it to me at [email protected]?

[wolfzell]

Right now in your mailbox.

Thanks for your help.

bye
Wolfgang

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