This may be a solution, however the directory structure you wrote for sounds like won't work with my setup. While iTunes will export and m3u playlist, I have a particular hiccup in my system that I can't seem to solve. Please feel free to add the information about the contextual menu thingie for exporting playlists too. It is the first site I would go to, to look for this. I would think relative paths is more general and should always work, so no need for your applicability disclaimer.Īnyway, definitely submit this to Mac OS X hints: The ability to generate relative paths is definitely a major plus, one which I didn't appreciate simply because I wanted my playlist to access the same music files as itunes in the exact same location. I don't know what else you have to do to make it Windoze-compliant, because I never use that OS. If it were me, I would just make a system call to perl to do an in-line edit, to change the forward to back slash. I know there is a way to go from unix directory hierarchy to the old-style Mac OS hierarchy in applescript, but I don't know if there is a way to do Windoze elegantly. I'm sure you will be doing the community a favor (and you will have lots of geeks offering "improvements"). You might want to submit this to MacOSX Hints, so it can get wider distribution. It may be a recent feature (which would also account, maybe, for the lack of documentation). I apologize for the distraction, but it sounds as if I might have found something hidden and useful by poking around. Side note - Chris, if you happen to read this, the css code for your ordered/unordered lists seems to be a bit a bit funky - too much spacing at the top, too little at the bottom. I also have to give credit to as a source for several of the techniques I used to create the script. Use that to create a regular playlist from a Genius Mix, then convert that playlist to m3u using my script. If you also want to use it with Genius Mixes then grab this script as well: It works great with the regular Genius feature, smartplaylists, etc. So far I've only tested with MPD, but I don't see why this wouldn't work with other apps like Foobar, Winamp, etc. (optional) Edit the script in the Applescript Editor to change the default location to avoid specifying the playlist folder every time. To Use it:Highlight the tracks you want exported to a m3u (typically just view whatever playlist you want and hit Command-A)Ĭlick the Script Icon on the Menu Bar beside 'Help', then select 'Export MPD m3u'Change the playlist name if desired, then specify your playlist folder when asked To install:Unzip the file archive(on OSX) Move it to /Users//Library/iTunes/Scripts (create the Scripts folder if it doesn't exist)Start/Restart iTunes (If it's not you can save it anywhere and move it after the fact.)
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