Rscholl
Nope.
On the Itunes tab I've got the Itunes Music Library.xml location
pointing to the My Music folder on my wifes PC which has been remapped
to my NAS by using TweakUI. see above.
On the Basic settings tab I have both Music Folder and Playlists
Folder pointing to the folder containing
I've tried moving xml files around and changing paths, and even tried to
put the xml file back into the default location in Vista. I still can't
get my playlists to show up. I can't believe I'm having such a hard
time. Squeeze support wants me to re-install itunes, but I don't think
that is the
I found a very super easy work around. I used TweakUI to remap the My
Music folder on my wifes PC to the external drive, the NAS.
Itunes always wants to place the xml files in My Music but by using
TweakUI I was able to go to My Computer/Special Folders and remap My
Music onto the NAS.
It works
I've just stumbled into what I think is a very similar, if not the same,
problem.
I have a just built a SlimNAS that I have Squeezecenter 7 running on
and all my music files copied over from my wifes PC so we can leave the
SlimNAS 'ON' and access all the songs with our Sqeezeboxes.
Trouble is
This issue has come up quite a few times and I believe the solution
which some people use is to make a copy of the active itunes.xml file
on the remote NAS or external drive, and point Squeezecenter to that.
This is because itunes doesn't appear to support storing playlists on a
remote drive.
Well I still can't get it to work! What am I doing wrong? First of all
my playlists work fine in itunes, so it's reading the xml file ok. That
file is in the itunes music folder, above the folder that actually
contains the music files. There's an itunes music library.xml and an
itunes library.xml
This is interesting about the xml file location. I moved my entire
library to a new computer and the path to the music files is different
b/c I changed the file tree structure. So I guess the old library xml
file still has the path to where the old library was and that's why it
can't populate the
...for anyone who's still following this: apparently if you put your
iTunes Library file (not the song files, the 'Library' database file)
someplace other than the default location--for example, on an external
disk--the .xml file is renamed 'iTunes Library.xml' rather than 'iTunes
Music
I discovered that I had both an 'iTunes Music Library.xml' and an
'iTunes Library.xml' file in my iTunes folder. (How that happened, I
don't know--I have a suspicion, but I'm not going to try to re-create
the problem to see if I'm right.) Looking at the files in a text
editor, I realized that the
i only know a lil bit about playlists...
but must the path be hardcoded?
isn't there a way to use a relative path somehow so if the drive
location changes the playlist is still good?
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MrSinatra
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Not in iTunes, as far as I know. The playlist info is stored in the
Library the way alZmtbr described it: with references to the songs,
whose locations themselves are hard-coded. When you tell iTunes to move
the Library to another disk, it rewrites all the path statements. If you
move your song
realized late last night that the m3u files are Play Lists created
within Slim itself, and not the iTunes playlists - sorry about that.
use iTiunes has been checked?
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alZmtbr
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Glad I searched for other instances of this problem...I recently
migrated to a new laptop as my primary Mac. Since the hard disk is
smaller than the one on my old iMac, I transferred my iTunes library to
an external disk. (I also transferred the actual Library files, not just
the music, to make
Can you open up the m3u file with a text editor? And see if the songs
are listed in their old location? It may just be a matter of
find/replace to update/change the paths...
A pain if this is the case, and the playlists aren't updated
'automagically'. I may be doing this soon as well. ie
...where's the m3u file?
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wakey
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Either in your main iTunes library folder, or in your My Documents
someplace, un-confirmed as I am at work at the moment...
Do a search on one of the playlist names, across all of your hard
drives if need be, let the system find 'em!
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alZmtbr
...iTunes creates separate files for playlists? I don't see m3u files
anywhere, and there are entries in the iTunes Library.xml file that
identify the playlists and reference the individual tracks. The
playlists don't have a path statement, but if I follow the reference to
the individual tracks,
Here's a snippet from one of (my wife's) PlayLists ---
#CURTRACK 0
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Beware Of Darkness
E:\iTunes\Compilations\Concert For George [Disc 2]\2-05 Beware Of
Darkness.m4a
#EXTINF:-1,Fast Car
E:\iTunes\Tracy Chapman\Tracy Chapman\02 Fast Car.m4a
#EXTINF:-1,When Doves Cry
So it does
...for iTunes to make separate playlist files. I didn't know it did
that. I guess on the Mac it just keeps them in its native Library file,
which is gibberish if opened in a text editor.
As you describe, the XML file opens with descriptions of the playlists
that reference the included tracks by
The iTunes library file - is it under the same account as BOTH the Slim
install and iTunes ripping? ie, is Slim reading the correct iTunes XML
file?
And are both music folder and playlist folder under Slim settings the
same? It is in my case, yours may differ.
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alZmtbr
Just installed a duet and while my playlist titles show up, there are no
songs in the playlists. This is both on the remote and on squeezecenter.
I followed the tutorial on blanking out the music folder location in
general settings, put the correct path for the xml file and music
library under
Headworx;182237 Wrote:
Hi, over the last 10 days I tried (I think) all suggestions posted here,
yet my itunes-based playlists remain empty. They are ok within iTunes,
Slimserver displays them, it also shows the music (below albums,
artists and so on), but playlists remain empty.
Hi, over the last 10 days I tried (I think) all suggestions posted here,
yet my itunes-based playlists remain empty. They are ok within iTunes,
Slimserver displays them, it also shows the music (below albums,
artists and so on), but playlists remain empty.
Slimserver is the latest (6.5.1 I
Since the upgrade to 6.2.2, when I rescan my music library, Slimserver
sees all my playlists, but they are empty. Anyone had this problem?
Thanks
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wduncan
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