You know how when you've been working on a problem for a long time, going down one rabbit hole after another, until you reach a point there in the weeds where you decide to just clean up, simplify, and start over? That's where I was this morning.
I started out researching the 'extended m3u' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U#Extended_M3U) format which is what LMS uses to help me understand how it works. I also had LMS clear and rescan the whole library, and changed the foobar2000 library url from the server IP address to the server NAME which is the way LMS seems to prefer it - so now they're identical. When you save a playlist in foobar2000, you have the option of .m3u or .m3u8, the latter encoded with UTF-8. When I initially saved a playlist as .m3u, foobar warned that it may not play correctly in some players. In the beginning, I tested both formats and the non-ASCII character issue occurred in both. That was then. That's no longer the case. After the clean-up above, LMS seems to like the .m3u version just fine. I created a "Remasters.m3u" playlist and LMS found and loaded all 10,539 tracks without a hitch - a playlist replete with foreign albums and non-ASCII characters. I'm not sure what the exact problem was, but it appears to be gone. So I'm feeling kinda sheepish now wasting everyone's time on this. At least I learned a coupla things about playlists and python - plus I have a nice new interface to play with (extGUI4LMS). Thanks everyone, and please accept my apologies for your trouble. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eCo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114635 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
