How about just using shortcuts?
I'm not totally sure about this, but I believe part of the problem is
that those m3u files highly depend on being located in the same location
as the files they index, or else they must be edited to contain correct
file path information. I no longer bother with them and delete them.
Better still, I disable their creation in my ripper.
In my situation, I do the following:
I have a folder called lyrics. In it are textfiles containing the lyrics
of tunes. Each file corresponds to a tune.
I have another folder containing sub folders, containing subsubfolders
of mp3 files.
Now, what I want is to have shortcuts pointing to the mp3 file and the
corresponding text file. I used to make a special collection folder and
copy the mp3 file and the text file there, which means that I now am
using gobs of disk space because of all these duplicated files. One day
a new way dawned on me:
I now have a shortcuts folder, or folders, each of which may contain
shortcuts to the mp3 files and text files of my choice. I can pick and
choose from anywhere on my system, including external drives but the
shortcuts are all centrally located.
How to make the shortcuts: I'm using Windows XP, the Explorer ap.
Go to the mp3 file using Windows Explorer.
Press the windows applications key for the context menu.
Press s until you hear make shortcut., and press enter.
A short cut to MyFile.mp3 is made in the same folder as MyFile.mp3 You
will move this and other shortcuts to your shortcuts folder now or
later.
I do the same thing for the text files, but in that case only one press
of s for create shortcut is necessary.
I copy all the shortcuts to the shortcuts folder and rename them like
this:
MySong1.m
MyLyrics1.t
HelloAgain.m
HelloAgain.t
BabyFace.m
BabyFace.t
I take the trouble to totally rename the shortcuts because Windows names
them exactly the same as the file, so that if you should go looking for
files like myMusic.mp3 the file and the shortcut will show up in the
list. I find this quite confusing and undesirable. Incidentally, if
anyone knows a better work around for this matter of excluding shortcuts
in such a find, I'd be happy to hear about it.
Another nice thing about renaming shortcuts is that they provide a way
of giving files aliases without renaming the actual file. The shortcuts
can be renamed to anything you like. You can have N different shortcuts
with different names pointing to the same file, so that if the actual
file is 03King of the Road.mp3, you can have shortcuts like the 3 which
follow:
Trailers.m
142Dillan's best song
0GuessWhatIAm
I may use Explorer to point to this folder, press the aps key, press p
until I hear "play in WinAmp", and just enter. The contents of the
shortcuts folder containing my particular collection plays.
Now, having said all this, I confess I've heard an awful lot about the
use of, for instance, the WinAmp library, and/or the library system of
any of the media players, but I've never touched them. However, this
may very well be exactly what you're looking for if you want to try to
learn it.
Hth,
Js
-----Original Message-----
stever2525
Hi, this is Steve. I have music folders with m3u extensions. If I press
enter within the folder, the entire folder will play. I would like to
create a completely different folder with just the m3u extensions. I
copied and pasted and it didn't work. Is there a way I can have a folder
on my Pc, which just has m3u extensions, and when entering, will go to
the right place and play the entire folder?
thank you
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