Re: playlists

yep!
those are they. i thought maybe that it was something to do with
the drive letters - but then thought better of it. are the
playlists always meant to be stored in the same folder as the tunes
themselves? i presume so.

No. You can have a playlist that references files like a
HTML page references files, relative or absolute.

Here's an example playlist that I use to test:

file:///Volumes/10.0.1.201-6/categories/Pop/Abba/Greatest%20Hits/01.%20Dancing%20Queen.mp3

/Volumes/10.0.1.201-6/categories/Pop/Abba/Greatest Hits/02.
Knowing Me, Knowing You.mp3

/Pop/Abba/Greatest Hits/03. Take A Chance On Me.mp3

Abba/Greatest Hits/04. Mamma Mia.mp3

http://10.0.1.201:8080/music/Abba/Greatest%20Hits/05.%20Lay%20All%20Your%20Love%20On%20Me.mp3

Note both file: and http: URLs (#1 and #5)

#4 is a relative URL (assuming that the folder that contains the
playlist has a folder in it called Abba)

#2 is an absolute reference to a file in my Unix/MacOSX file
system. On Windows it would be C:/whatever

#3 is a funky SliMP3 special "absolute" reference,
which it will try to resolve by pre-pending the path to your MP3 files
to the beginning. We'll try #3 if #2 fails.

Otherwise
you would need absolute paths to them (although my pls playlists have
the same problem). it would be nice if the slimp3 could point to
the musicmatch playlists area

(D:\program files\MusicMatch\MusicMatch
Jukebox\Playlist\Default on my system) and understand
those.

Yes it would be nice. The files should work in principal,
but we don't have a separate area for playlists yet.

On Unix/MacOSX systems, you can put a symlink in your music
directory to the playlists. Under windows we partially support
shortcuts, but I hear that there are some problems there. Give
it a try and see if it works for you.

in the
meantime i can still play folders, and if i find out why this is
happening i will give you a shout.

Great.

-dean