On the subject of playlists, here is what happens (I've actually just  
spent part of my evening looking it all up):

if you have a playlist folder then all playlists in that folder and  
it's subfolders will be collected into a flat list of playlists.  
there is an open request to
have that return to a ui where the playlist subfolders are kept so  
that the playlists can be represented as a browsable tree.

http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740

It is targetted for 7.0, but at this point I'd say it would not be  
worth putting money on hitting that target.

if you have playlists in the music folder, these are left alone.   
Here is the scanner log showing the extensions considered valid for  
music folder scan:
[18:35:53.9581] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (286) About to  
look for files in /myth/music
[18:35:53.9603] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (287) For files  
with extensions in: (?i-xsm:\.(?:ape|wma|wav|wave|mp3|mp2|flc|flac| 
fla|m4a|mov|m4b|mp4|mp+|mpc|ogg|aif|aiff|cue)$)

This list is derived from types.conf and is made up only of the types  
flagged as 'audio', not 'playlist'.

While I may be incorrect that it's been this way al through 6.5, it  
is this way to get past problems from 6.5 and before.  It's just too  
much checking involved to deal with playlists in folders because so  
many have bogus paths and refer to non-existent files (EAC, for  
example creates an M3U/CUE of WAV files when I rip, but then converts  
the files to FLAC leaving the M3U pointing to the wrong thing. That's  
just one example, and of course it would be nice to be able to  
support it, but for now it's just as easy to select the album from  
browse album and play it.

-kdf



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