Yes I currently have LMS set up as intended.  As I said the Playlist
folder works but I can only choose one folder in the settings --
therefore I can only browse the contents of one folder on my player. 
The Music Folder breaks everything out by folder (playlists and files)
but I cannot select an m3u file without the "Cannot Request..." error. 
Again all I want is to see playlists (only) broken out by folder, by
whatever method (and I still need to look into the symbolic links
suggested by reinholdk).

Files are pretty well tagged, I spend a lot of time doing that.  But I
really only use tags to tell me what is Now Playing, that's about it.  I
don't use them to browse.  And I think it's very difficult to remain
consistent when you have a lot of files.  For example, in my Artists
folder, I may see:

The Beatles
Beatles
Beatles, The

...which can be corrected with MP3tag or something but it takes a lot of
time once you hunt down all your Beatles files.  Then you remember you
did it a different way with The Who...

Whereas in my big "Rock" playlist folder I could have the following
which is super easy to make fixes to -- and note some files will appear
in multiple playlists, which you can't do with tags alone.

Beatles -- Abby Road.m3u
Beatles -- John songs.m3u
Beatles -- Revolver.m3u
Beatles -- White Album.m3u
Beatles -- various mono mixes.m3u
V/A -- favorite British Invasion.m3u

Anyway I'm probably stating the obvious here.  I think the point is it's
good to have flexibility.  Some prefer playlists and some prefer the
various tag attributes.  It drives me nuts that I have to do all kinds
of acrobatics just to get my media server to list things the way Windows
Explorer does (by folder/files).


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