I am moving my playlists (.m3u) from a headless Linux box on my network to a Windows box. Each box runs its own copy of SBS under its own operating system.
The playlists that I made on the Linux box (using its web interface from a browser on a separate Windows machine) have only two lines per playlist entry: - an #EXTINF (with a -1 for the length and the track name) - the track's file location with full path name under the Linux system. The playlists that I make from scratch on the Windows box (running SBS and containing the music files) have three lines per playlist entry: - a #EXTURL:file/// directive followed by the track's file location in what seems to be Linux format (spaces replaced by the ASCII code %20) - a #EXTINF (with the actual length of the track and the track name) - the track's file location in Windows format with a full path name My question is, what does the #EXTURL directive do, and is it necessary on playlists under windows? Searching the forums brings no hits. Is it only used by SBS and only for certain configurations? I am no longer using the Linux box and am moving all the playlists from it to the Windows machine that is running SBS. I know I have to replace all the file locations from the Linux box with their new locations on the Windows box and change the "/" to "\". My question though is, do I have to add a #EXTURL line to each entry of these playlists? They seem to work OK on the Windows box without an #EXTURL entry as long as I convert the file location. And is it important to have the proper length of th track in the #EXTINF directive? Thanks, Swimmer -- Swimmerbird123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swimmerbird123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17285 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89991 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
