Winamp playlist to XMMS

dangerousdave · 08-22-2005, 04:45 PM

OK, XMMS handles winamp playlists all hunky dorey... until you have subdirectories - the obvious issue of '\' over '/'. Also my mp3s and playlists are on an ntfs partition, so I cant directly edit the playlist. So basically I need some utiliy or maybe some mad grep command or some script that can (a) Rename all pointers in the m3u from relative to absolute paths (so I can copy the m3u to my linux partition and the path to the mp3s will be valid) and (b) replace all \ with / when subdirectories are used.

I should think this is a common enough problem, there must be some utlity or quick fix method of doing this?

Cheers,

mebrelith · 08-22-2005, 05:19 PM

Stop using XMMS and get amarok. Never had this kind of problems.

ironwalker · 08-22-2005, 06:42 PM

XMMS is fine.....no need for anarok.

The only times I had problems similar to this was when the name of the file was windows style and had spaces in the name of the file.

mebrelith · 08-22-2005, 07:19 PM

Naming problems with NTFS also have to do with UTF-8 related issues. And well, XMMS has no UTF-8 support for what Ive seen. And its amarok, and it rules.

dub.wav · 08-22-2005, 07:47 PM

Probably there already is a tool which does this, but I wrote this script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$#" != 2 ]
then
	echo "Usage: $0 <playlist> <path to relative directory>"
	exit 1
fi
grep -v '^#' "$1" | sed 's/\\/\//' | while read line
do 
	echo "$2$line"
done

Use it like this:
bash m3u_toabs.sh /mnt/windows/music/playlist.m3u /mnt/windows/music/ > playlist.m3u

dangerousdave · 08-25-2005, 05:15 PM

Absolutely EXCELLENT. Exactly what I needed. This should be posted up somewhere in a faq or something.

Cheers for this.