Importing iTunes playlist into Subsonic..?

[chris_j718]

Hi, I am new here and I do apologize if there is an existing thread related to my question.

I decided to get away from iTunes and come over to Subsonic. I love it, but the only issue is getting my playlists in. I have A LOT of playlists and I would like to be able to import them into Subsonic, but no matter what I do and no matter what format I save them from iTunes in, I cannot seem to import them into Subsonic.

Does anyone know a way that I could convert these playlists that were exported from iTunes into something that Subsonic likes?

Thank you!

[Jägs]

Off the top of my head, I'm not sure there is going to be an automated way to do this, unless you've left your iTunes music folder intact, and are pointing Subsonic to it. If that's the case, you should be able to export a playlist from iTunes as an M3U, and import it into Subsonic.

If your music is in a different location, you could still use the exported M3U, but you'll need to change the file path. Here's an example of an M3U I exported out of iTunes:

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#EXTM3U
/Volumes/SSD/me/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Cannonball Adderley/Know What I Mean_ (with Bill Evans) [Bonus Track Version]/05 Toy.mp3
#EXTINF:262,In the Still of the Night - Sonny Criss
/Volumes/SSD/me/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Sonny Criss/The Complete Imperial Sessions (Bonus Track Version)/07 In the Still of the Night.mp3
#EXTINF:446,Minor Mishap - Kenny Burrell
/Volumes/SSD/me/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Kenny Burrell/Tommy's Tune/08 Minor Mishap.mp3


So, using a text editor, you'd need to replace each path (e.g. /Volumes/SSD/me/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Cannonball Adderley/) with the path to where the music now resides, assuming you haven't changed the names of the files themselves. A simple regex would do this in short order.

One note: Subsonic does not do smart playlists--feature request, please!--so any such playlists will obviously become static.

[chris_j718]

I appreciate your feedback.

So essentially, one way or another, I am going to have to rebuild my playlists.
I might as well just get crackin' with that.

What I've done to start up my subsonic, I used an app called CopyTrans to make a copy of everything that was on my iPhone and consolidated that copy into one root folder to read into subsonic. My playlists, I literally had to export from iTunes 1 by 1. This process alone took hours. Unfortunately, I did this process prior to even making a subsonic account. They are text files. Once I failed to import into subsonic as text, I exported a playlist from iTunes in a few other formats. None of these work and now I understand why, thanks to you.

Smart playlists would be nice, Subsonic.
Everything aside from this issue is absolutely fantastic.

Thanks again, Jägs