is it a bug or a feature, that, when you download a playlist you get a zip file with all songs in the playlist but not the .m3u file itself inside the zip file?
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download playlist - missing .m3u file
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download playlist - missing .m3u file
by perler » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:00 am
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Re: download playlist - missing .m3u file
by BKKKPewsey » Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:30 pm
As a playlist mainly consists of information to tell your media player what media to play and its location how could SS know that 
You can only prepare a playlist once the files are in their "final resting place"
You can only prepare a playlist once the files are in their "final resting place"
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, 
but some abuse the privilege!
Due to the confusion from too many genres of music, we have decided to put both country music and rap music into the genre of Crap music.
but some abuse the privilege!Due to the confusion from too many genres of music, we have decided to put both country music and rap music into the genre of Crap music.
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Re: download playlist - missing .m3u file
by MusicFan » Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:09 pm
BKKKPewsey wrote:As a playlist mainly consists of information to tell your media player what media to play and its location how could SS know that
You can only prepare a playlist once the files are in their "final resting place"
I'm responding concerning 2 points in this post.
1. If the m3u file is in the same folder as the audio files you only need to list the filenames in the m3u without path information. It will find the files without a problem. This is why such programs as M3uHere are so handy. (Shame M3uHere doesn't work on windows 7 64bit
) Right click the folder from the context menu, choose M3uhere and you have your m3u in less than 2 snaps of a circle. I use windows. I don't know if the rules are different on other OS's about m3u playlists.2. Thank you for posting this question perler. I could have sworn in an older version a couple years ago (when I first started using my absolutely favorite streaming app) that it would pack the complete album folder from the hdd including anything else included in the folder. i.e. m3u, jpgs, sfv and whaterver. Now I notice it only zips the music files listed for the album. Maybe I'm missing a specific icon I have to click to download the complete source folder? Otherwise, I also +1 to get this added. (Maybe it's intentional that only the music files are packed. So if other users would prefer this maybe a switch could be available in SETTINGS to specify in which way download should work?).
While I'm at it I would like to give Sindre 10 Thumbs up. I hadn't been using Subsonic for a while and some of the new goodies are a treat. For example, downloading album art.
And the links to google, wiki etc are just fantastic. It's so handy not having to switch tabs or go into another browser manually. One thing I noticed is that the allmusic link always comes up with a "No search results were found for "albumname" message. I see here that subsonice sends /view?album="albumname" instead of /search/all/"albumname". Maybe Sindre will read this and tweak that search line?
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Re: download playlist - missing .m3u file
by MusicFan » Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:38 am
Problem solved. It seems I just had to reinstall version 4.8. (I was on 4.9) Then zips contain all the files in the chosen folder.
P.S. I seem to have misunderstood the topic. About downloading from a playlist and not just downloading a specific album. Sorry about that.
But concerning the original question of the topic if the m3u is created to reside in the same folder/path as the zipped files it would work.
P.S. I seem to have misunderstood the topic. About downloading from a playlist and not just downloading a specific album. Sorry about that.
But concerning the original question of the topic if the m3u is created to reside in the same folder/path as the zipped files it would work.
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Re: download playlist - missing .m3u file
by dragonz6189 » Sun May 04, 2014 7:39 pm
MusicFan wrote:
And the links to google, wiki etc are just fantastic. It's so handy not having to switch tabs or go into another browser manually. One thing I noticed is that the allmusic link always comes up with a "No search results were found for "albumname" message. I see here that subsonice sends /view?album="albumname" instead of /search/all/"albumname". Maybe Sindre will read this and tweak that search line?
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If you locate 'allmusic.jsp' in the webapplication you can replace the contents of the JSP with the following to achieve a working Allmusic.com search again.
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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" pageEncoding="iso-8859-1"%>
<html><head>
<%@ include file="head.jsp" %>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.location = "http://www.allmusic.com/search/albums/${album}";
</script>
</head>
<body class="mainframe bgcolor1">
<h2><fmt:message key="allmusic.text"><fmt:param value="${album}"/></fmt:message></h2>
</body>
</html>
Hopefully they can integrate this in the next beta.
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