M7CC wrote: > 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). Hmm, in my experience it's the other way around. That is, it is quite easy to use mp3tag to make your tagging consistent. "Hunting down all your Beatles files" is a snap if you sort on Artist or use the filter window at the bottom. Or you could even right-click your Beatles folder and voilà, open it and only it in mp3tag. Otoh, I find it more of a pain to maintain the correct absolute path and filenames required for playlists. Maybe you never rename folders or files?
Anyway, do try the 'mklink' command that reinholdk recommended for making symbolic links in Windows. It may work better than regular Windows shortcuts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100769
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