Playlists don't work on Android

[OldePhart]

Dear All,

I'm a newbie here: I only set up Subsonic today. If this is a stupid question, please forgive me. I couldn't find an answer anywhere else...

I have Subsonic up and running on my computer (Windows XP) - the router is configured, the Android app on my Samsung can connect and play music from my collection: it's all good. EXCEPT, my playlists don't seem to work.

From Android, I select the playlist control and they all appear, but when I select one, I get a "No media found" message.

The playlists all live in G:\Music, they're simple .m3u text files

I've tried editing the contents with notepad, but cannot get the Android app to see the music.

I've tried the following variants:

Modern by artist\Blondie\Blondie - Presence Dear.mp3
.\Modern by artist\Blondie\Blondie - Presence Dear.mp3
G:\Music\Modern by artist\Blondie\Blondie - Presence Dear.mp3

- the file "Blondie - Presence Dear.mp3" lives in "G:\Music\Modern by artist\Blondie"

I do dual boot with XUbuntu, but I don't think that my linux music player has edited the playlists: they still work in Windows XP with listFix.1.5.3.jar and with smplayer.exe

I'm sure that I'm committing a basic error, but I cannot for the life of me see what it is. Any help would be most welcome (preferably advice that doesn't involve hard-coding the drive letter into the resource string, "G:" is a removable drive and is used by more than one OS on more than one device).

Apart from this minor irk, I have nothing but praise for the software: very impressed.

Many thanks in advance,

Nick (Oldephart)

[OldePhart]

Ah,

Sorry about this: my Android player has started working when the playlists' resouce strings have the format:

G:\Music\Modern by artist\Blondie\Blondie - Presence Dear.mp3 - I simply hadn't allowed enough time for the edited playlist to be updated.

So, the question becomes, "How can I create working playlists which work with a relative path?" I suppose I could create a separate playlist directory for Subsonic's use, but I'd rather not...

Is there any other work-around?

Thanks,

Nick

[BKKKPewsey]

The playlists within SS must have the same path as the directory structure that you have set up for SS.
So if you are using an external app to create playlists then it needs to have the same path structure.

[OldePhart]

Ah well.

It's not an insurmountable problem: I'll copy my playlists to a directory for Subsonic and get busy with grep.

Thanks for the prompt help.

Nick