-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: Auto-Create Playlists started by James
Posted by: James on Mar. 11 2004,22:28
I'd like to be able to recurse directories and auto-create a playlist of all of the MP3 files in each folder which pass a filter. Ideally, I'd also like to be able to set the playlist format and a template for path and filename where the playlists are to be saved (and specify absolute or relative path-to-MP3?).
The specific situation is that I'm looking to reorganise my MP3s to make them more easily browsable on my portable MP3 jukebox. I'm planning on putting MP3 files themselves in a path which looks like this:
Music/Tracks/<Letter A-Z>/<Track Title> (<Artist>).mp3
And auto-generate Playlists in these places:
Music/<Genre>.m3u
Music/Artists/<Letter A-Z>/<Artist>.m3u
Music/Artists/<Letter A-Z>/Singles/<Artist>.m3u
And one of these, depending on which tags exist in the Mp3:
Music/Artists/<Letter A-Z>/Albums/<Year> <Album> (<Artist>).m3u
Music/Artists/<Letter A-Z>/Albums/<Album>.m3u
Music/Artists/<Letter A-Z>/Albums/<Year> <Album>.m3u
Music/Artists/<Letter A-Z>/Albums/<Album> (<Artist>).m3u
Where, in Each case, <Letter A-Z> is the initial letter of the Track or artist name, so - say - Amr Diab's Album playlists would live in Music/A/Albums But Robbie Williams' would live in Music/R/Albums
So the script's actions would be doing this sort of thing (in English):
1) For each track in Music/Tracks/<subdirs> with an Artist tag, create a playlist Music/Artists/<Artist(first char)/<Artist>.m3u or add the track to that playlist if the playlist already exists. Use relative path-to-Mp3 and create an m3u format playlist.
2) If MP3 has Year, Artist and Album tags, ditto for the playlist blah/Albums/<year> <Album> (<artist>).m3u
3) If the MP3 has Artist and Album but no Year tag, ditto for <Album> (<Artist>).m3u
4) etc (you get the idea)
Script automation of "perform this action using these filters" would give me all the functionality I'm after, provided that the resulting list can be saved using a playlist naming template.
Oh, and on a tenuously-related topic, can you lose the "<file> was already named correctly" alerts, please? They can very irritating when trying to work with a lot of MP3s....
Posted by: James on Mar. 11 2004,22:28
Damn that was a long post - sorry for the length there....
Posted by: Elbow on Mar. 23 2004,07:32
Said the actress to the bishop.
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