Follow-on to How to create Playlists via Notepad?
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Follow-on to How to create Playlists via Notepad?
This is a follow-on to DFWdude's original post: https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w...a-notepad.html
I've gotten it to work. Thanks to DFWdude for getting me started. Here's what I did. (I'm adding to DFWdude's steps, my extra steps are in blue)
Open WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, then…
1) Pull up the album(s) desired by artist (or whatever) in the central panel.
2) Drag and Drop the desired song(s) into the playlist panel to the right.
3) To the far right of the “Save List” line, select the drop-down icon and scroll to “Save list as” (pic below). This opens up the > This PC > Music > Playlists folder on your PC.
4) Name the Playlist, then save it. The file will have a .wpl extension.
This is what my sample playlist.wpl file looks like:
<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 12.0.18362.1"/>
<meta name="ItemCount" content="3"/>
<title>TestPlayList</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="..\AC_DC\Black Ice\01 Rock 'N Roll Train.mp3" tid="{C8DD2DB9-CDBA-432C-9701-27A002C35A60}"/>
<media src="..\AC_DC\For Those About To Rock We Salute You\01 For Those About To Rock (We Salut.mp3"/>
<media src="..\AC_DC\The Razor's Edge\01 Thunderstruck.mp3"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>
4.1 Edit out all the XML so the playlist.wpl looks like this:
..\AC_DC\Black Ice\01 Rock 'N Roll Train.mp3
..\AC_DC\For Those About To Rock We Salute You\01 For Those About To Rock (We Salut.mp3
..\AC_DC\The Razor's Edge\01 Thunderstruck.mp3
Note that I have removed the ' (code for an apostrophe) and replaced that with a real apostrophe
4.2 Rename the file extension from playlist.wpl to playlist.m3u
5) Finally, using Windows Explorer, go to > This PC > Music > Playlists folder, and drag-drop the playlist to the root folder of your USB or SD music card.
5.1 I copied the playlist.m3u file onto a folder named Playlists on my SD Card, it worked both ways, in the root folder as well as a Playlist folder.
5.2 I copied the music into onto the SD Card from the Artist level as DFWdude did, so my folder structure on the SD Card looks like this:
Y:\>dir
Volume in drive Y is MUSIC TEST
Directory of Y:\
2016-12-15 13:05 <DIR> AC_DC
2016-12-15 13:05 <DIR> Aerosmith
2019-09-05 14:59 <DIR> Playlists
Directory of Y:\AC_DC
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> Back In Black
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> Black Ice
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> For Those About To Rock We Salute You
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> The Razor's Edge
Directory of Y:\Aerosmith
2019-05-13 10:55 <DIR> Greatest Hits
Directory of Y:\Playlists
2019-09-05 17:20 181 playlist.m3u
6) Mount the USB or SD card in your car. Power up Comand, select the media source as usual. Then use voice command to “Search for Playlist” You should see the list as named earlier. Select it and enjoy.
6.1 I don't use voice command, so I select Search -> Playlist and it brings up the list of .m3u files, selected the one I wanted, and away it went.
That is what I did to make it work, once again, thanks to DFWdude for getting me started in the right direction for me, your mileage may vary.
My next attempt will be to create the m3u file using an editor, notepad, and see how that works, but it is just as easy to export the playlist from Windows Media Player and edit the .wpl file as required.
After that I am going to try something similar on my MacBook.
Regards.....Pete
I've gotten it to work. Thanks to DFWdude for getting me started. Here's what I did. (I'm adding to DFWdude's steps, my extra steps are in blue)
Open WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, then…
1) Pull up the album(s) desired by artist (or whatever) in the central panel.
2) Drag and Drop the desired song(s) into the playlist panel to the right.
3) To the far right of the “Save List” line, select the drop-down icon and scroll to “Save list as” (pic below). This opens up the > This PC > Music > Playlists folder on your PC.
4) Name the Playlist, then save it. The file will have a .wpl extension.
This is what my sample playlist.wpl file looks like:
<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 12.0.18362.1"/>
<meta name="ItemCount" content="3"/>
<title>TestPlayList</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="..\AC_DC\Black Ice\01 Rock 'N Roll Train.mp3" tid="{C8DD2DB9-CDBA-432C-9701-27A002C35A60}"/>
<media src="..\AC_DC\For Those About To Rock We Salute You\01 For Those About To Rock (We Salut.mp3"/>
<media src="..\AC_DC\The Razor's Edge\01 Thunderstruck.mp3"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>
4.1 Edit out all the XML so the playlist.wpl looks like this:
..\AC_DC\Black Ice\01 Rock 'N Roll Train.mp3
..\AC_DC\For Those About To Rock We Salute You\01 For Those About To Rock (We Salut.mp3
..\AC_DC\The Razor's Edge\01 Thunderstruck.mp3
Note that I have removed the ' (code for an apostrophe) and replaced that with a real apostrophe
4.2 Rename the file extension from playlist.wpl to playlist.m3u
5) Finally, using Windows Explorer, go to > This PC > Music > Playlists folder, and drag-drop the playlist to the root folder of your USB or SD music card.
5.1 I copied the playlist.m3u file onto a folder named Playlists on my SD Card, it worked both ways, in the root folder as well as a Playlist folder.
5.2 I copied the music into onto the SD Card from the Artist level as DFWdude did, so my folder structure on the SD Card looks like this:
Y:\>dir
Volume in drive Y is MUSIC TEST
Directory of Y:\
2016-12-15 13:05 <DIR> AC_DC
2016-12-15 13:05 <DIR> Aerosmith
2019-09-05 14:59 <DIR> Playlists
Directory of Y:\AC_DC
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> Back In Black
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> Black Ice
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> For Those About To Rock We Salute You
2019-05-13 10:41 <DIR> The Razor's Edge
Directory of Y:\Aerosmith
2019-05-13 10:55 <DIR> Greatest Hits
Directory of Y:\Playlists
2019-09-05 17:20 181 playlist.m3u
6) Mount the USB or SD card in your car. Power up Comand, select the media source as usual. Then use voice command to “Search for Playlist” You should see the list as named earlier. Select it and enjoy.
6.1 I don't use voice command, so I select Search -> Playlist and it brings up the list of .m3u files, selected the one I wanted, and away it went.
That is what I did to make it work, once again, thanks to DFWdude for getting me started in the right direction for me, your mileage may vary.
My next attempt will be to create the m3u file using an editor, notepad, and see how that works, but it is just as easy to export the playlist from Windows Media Player and edit the .wpl file as required.
After that I am going to try something similar on my MacBook.
Regards.....Pete
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The simple drag and drop process within Media Player doesn't work for you?
I appreciate you're debugging the Manual process. But IMO, it still leaves a lot of opportunity for manually introduced errors.
I appreciate you're debugging the Manual process. But IMO, it still leaves a lot of opportunity for manually introduced errors.
