If the playlist lists the location of the song in a particular folder, slimserver will look in that directory for the tune. If the drive is hooked to a computer that names it hdrive the server will look for hdrive. If you have the server running on a remote computer hdrive will have another name such as remotecomputer/hdrive. Slimserver will not be able to find the remotecomputer/hdrive because the playlist has the tune at hdrive not remotecomputer/hdrive. This happens regardless of what you set the music folder to be even if it is remotecomputer/hdrive. I had asked that the XML parsing be done in a different fashion to allow substitution of the hdrive with remotecomputer/hdrive, but I don't think it has happened.
Basically, this prevents using playlists generated by another computer on a second computer accessing the first computer's drive. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Weller Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [slim] Re: Playlists In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Weller wrote: > SlimServer can see all of the MP3s but none of the playlists so I > assume I'm missing something. Well I have a workaround but I don't understand why it makes a difference. Following my previous problems I then put a playlist in a folder under the library root, i.e. the root of the directory structure that contains all the MP3s, and re-scanned playlists but it made no difference. I then re-scanned looking for new and changed music - no difference. I then browsed to the folder using SlimServer and told it to play the playlist - nothing. I attempted to edit the playlist and all that happened was SlimServer locked up. I'd obviously updated the 'playlist' setting in SlimServer after each of these changes. I then moved the playlist to a folder on the same machine as SlimServer was running on, i.e. I moved it off the LinkStation on to a local drive, re-scanned playlists and it worked perfectly as soon as I'd re-scanned playlists. That leaves an obvious questions - why won't SlimServer read a playlist off of a LinkStation drive? Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
