If you are on Snow Leopard or older, you have to choose save and then close text edit.įor instance, I noticed that my method preceded each line with. If you are on Lion, you can simply close text edit. Once you see it has highlighted the junk you want to get rid of you click all. You then type /Users/Todd/Music/iTunes in the top box and leave the replace box empty. I think you can replace "/Users/Todd/Music/iTunes" with "" and it should all get cleaned up. I'm still not sure why it doesn't work when you edit it in textedit. Let's get the text edit method working first and come back to the script to generate playlists. It's late so I'll be back tomorrow evening to take another look. If you're not comfortable in terminal, I can take a look at creating an applescript you can simply run and it will prompt you for the location where you want to make the m3u file. You run the script and it generates the file (and deletes the old file). The script I gave you creates the file from scratch every time. Relative paths look like d/song1.mp3 and normally don't have a leading / S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/01-Holiday In The Sun.mp3īut when I've done this & it still doesn't work in my car.Ībsolute paths look like /Volumes/audi/d/song1.mp3 I believe it was something like changing this: Someone mentioned something like editing the 2nd line for each song to be relative but can't remember what needed to be done. I've successfully done this once before about 2 years ago and I never messed with it again after having it working but I want to create more playlist, so I kind of forgot what I needed to do. AUDI S5/ (name of the hard drive) (PLAYLISTS) Here is how my hard drive is set and of the folder structure of the music on the hard drive. Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/09-Sub-Mission.mp3 Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/08-Anarchy In The Uk.mp3 #EXTINF:212,Anarchy In The Uk - Sex Pistols Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/07-Seventeen.mp3 Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/06-God Save The Queen.mp3 #EXTINF:200,God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/05-Problems.mp3 Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/04-Liar.mp3 Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/03-No Feelings.mp3 Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/02-Bodies.mp3
Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/01-Holiday In The Sun.mp3 #EXTINF:202,Holiday In The Sun - Sex Pistols Users/Todd/Music/MY MUSIC/S/Sex Pistols/Never Mind The Bollock's Here's The Sex Pistols/01-Holiday In The Sun.mp3 #EXTM3U In the sample below is the line I need to edit. I've been told that I need to edit the path to. m3u file opened with TextEdit as it is unedited form.
You have to open the M3U files and change them to be relative paths to where you save your M3U files.
#M3u edit mac#
The Audi is not a Mac and it will not have that absolute path that iTunes saves playlists. Programs like iTunes and VLC write absolute paths to the songs. I open up TextEdit and need to edit the text to allow them to play in my car. Once I create the playlist in iTunes and then export them and save them as a. Now I'm pretty new to Mac's and was wondering if someone here has ideas to understand what's going on. Creating a playlist on a Mac with iTunes for playback in my Audi requires manually editing the.
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