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Problem Description:
Everything is working great with the exception of playlists.

I have several m3u playlists from the library I imported that work fine in wmp and ampache. When I try to import them, I get this error:

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Failed to import playlist. No songs in the playlist were found.

Now, I can live without those playlists... they needed work anyway. However, when creating a new playlist from scratch I am unable to add songs! From more actions -> add to playlist -> click playlist, I get the pop-up balloon saying 'playlist updated'. However, when I click on the playlist, it reads "playlist is empty".

Aside from this little issue I am very happy with this software and will gladly send a donation once I get this issue worked out.

Troubleshooting Steps:
I have tried restarting the service, rebooting the machine, and rescanning the media dir. For troubleshooting I am still running subsonic as root, and have recursive 777 permissions on the music directory. Same behavior on admin user and standard. Newly created playlists still exist after service restart.

Playback Application and version: Web frontend
Subsonic Version: 4.7 (build 3105) – September 11, 2012
Server Version: jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_24, Linux (105.2 MB / 112.7 MB)
Hardware Platform: Ubuntu server 12.10 32bit
Java Memory Limit: 200MB (set in /etc/default/subsonic)
Output from ffmpeg -i:

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root@mserv:/# ffmpeg -i
ffmpeg version 0.8.4-6:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the Libav
developers
  built on Nov  6 2012 16:49:20 with gcc 4.7.2
*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future
release. Please use avconv instead.
Missing argument for option 'i'

Last ten log file lines:

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[11/16/12 8:27:06 PM EST]    INFO   DaoHelper   Checking database schema.
[11/16/12 8:27:09 PM EST]    INFO   DaoHelper   Done checking database schema.
[11/16/12 8:27:10 PM EST]    INFO   PlayerDao   Deleted 1 player(s) that haven't been used after Mon Sep 17 20:27:10 EDT 2012
[11/16/12 8:27:10 PM EST]    INFO   MediaScannerService   Automatic media library scanning scheduled to run every 1 day(s), starting at Sat Nov 17 12:00:00 EST 2012
[11/16/12 8:27:11 PM EST]    INFO   PodcastService   Automatic Podcast update scheduled to run every 24 hour(s), starting at Fri Nov 16 20:32:11 EST 2012
[11/16/12 8:27:15 PM EST]    INFO   NetworkService   Deleted port mapping for port 4040
[11/16/12 8:27:15 PM EST]    INFO   NetworkService   Deleted port mapping for port 4044
[11/16/12 8:31:06 PM EST]    INFO   VersionService   Resolved local Subsonic version to: 4.7
[11/16/12 8:31:06 PM EST]    INFO   VersionService   Resolved latest Subsonic final version to: 4.7
[11/16/12 8:31:06 PM EST]    INFO   VersionService   Resolved latest Subsonic beta version to: 4.7.beta3
[11/16/12 8:31:06 PM EST]    INFO   PlayerDao   Created player 5.

With regard to importing playlists - you need to make sure the path name in the m3u is the same pathname as subsonic is using.

When adding songs to a playlist you are selecting the tracks you want first (ticking the check boxes)?

DOH! I was indeed forgetting to check the checkbox.

As for the playlists, they were created in the same directory structure I'm using for the library and still play in WMP over a samba share.

Example line from the .m3u's:

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ArtistName\AlbumName\SongName.mp3

The directory structure of the library matches the above. I've tried adding it by browsing to the samba share to the music library directory, and by copying it to my local disk.. still no dice.

Thanks for the help!

After some more troubleshooting, I'm able to import a playlist. By prepending /home/user/storage/music/ to each line and changing \'s to /'s to get the full filepath, it works!