*Exact* playlist format for hifi professional on USB

[Squiddie]

I am having a hard time to make the Hifi professional (e89 upgraded US system) recognize playlists on USB sticks. It sees the music on it just fine. The playlists are never appearing in the directory listing.

I tried:

• *.m3u and *.m3u8 extensions
• MS-DOS and Unix line endings
• relative paths and absolute paths in filenames
• forward slashes and backslashes

No change. Playlists do not appear in dir listing.

If anybody has one that works, could you make it available?

[techathy]

Also check your text file encoding is ASCII or UTF8 not an ISO standard.

[Maniac]

I had no idea it could even read playlists. I thought it was audio files only.

[jimbo1958]

I am having a hard time to make the Hifi professional (e89 upgraded US system) recognize playlists on USB sticks. It sees the music on it just fine. The playlists are never appearing in the directory listing.

I tried:

• *.m3u and *.m3u8 extensions
• MS-DOS and Unix line endings
• relative paths and absolute paths in filenames
• forward slashes and backslashes

No change. Playlists do not appear in dir listing.

If anybody has one that works, could you make it available?

I had no idea it could even read playlists. I thought it was audio files only.

Using playlists on mine.
I have the tracks I want in a folder on the stick and then generate a playlist in .m3u format and it works a treat.
Can't think why the OP is having probs.
I'm using the excellent Freeware Playlist Creator 3.6. It allows you to shuffle the tracks before generating the playlist as well. http://www.oddgravity.de/

[Squiddie]

Jimbo, could you make one of those playlists available to me on dropbox or email? I don't have windows. I just want to check the specific encoding.

I have hundreds of m3u8 playlists that work perfectly fine everywhere else, just not the BMW.

Character encoding should hopefully not matter since I don't use filenames with > 7 bit characters. But it might also expect the old MS-DOS Control-Z at the end or some stupidity.

[Squiddie]

BTW, anybody got USB sticks > 32 GB to work, and if so which filesystem?

[srhutch]

This program is great for exporting itunes playlists including the tracks to USB. I use it all the time.

http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/itunesexport/

[jimbo1958]

BTW, anybody got USB sticks > 32 GB to work, and if so which filesystem?

I'm using 32gb with FAT32......PM me your email address and I'll send you the .m3u.

[jamesbond]

Hi

i Use wav files on my e89 .. i use a program called dppoweramp to rip the music to my hard rive, then transfer to the z4, also works on our new 3rd generation minis

regards

[Squiddie]

Jimbo, did you ever mail? Didn't get anything but might be spamfilters.

I have no problems playing various kinds of music but the winamp playlists just don't show up in directory view no matter how many variants of line endings I use and whether they have *.m3u or *.m3u8 endings. The same playlists work on other devices.

[jimbo1958]

Still waiting for you to PM me your email address.




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[ruggedscot]

Simple soluion -

How many playlists do you want and how long are your play lists ?

Very simple create the tracks on your media with a numerical prefix.

101 track 1
102 track 2
103 track 3

playlist 9

901 track 1
902 track 2
903 track 3

etc....

[Squiddie]

I need the playlists so that I don't need to duplicate files when I want one song show up in several lists.


Anyway, thanks to Jimbo I figured it out. My playlists were working all the time. It is just that instead of displaying a list of playlists like a list of files, the system displays playlists like directories, showing the contents, and you can only play them by going in and playing a song. Since my playlists have names similar to the actual directories I got fooled into thinking I am in my directories, whereas it was really playlists and directories.

The bad news is that weighted m3u playlists the dumb way (just duplicating entries) doesn't seem to work with this unit.