Migrating .m3u playlists from another player (Foobar2000) to work on Astiga
MassiveAttk
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Hey ya'll I know there is this thread years back that this very question was asked,
thread name: Bulk-Import Playlists from *.fpl
I'm having a lot of difficulty trying to understand how to use the script provided, let alone understanding how it's being implemented. Basically I used Astiga for my car + walking outside, while I use my PC it's always Foobar2000. When I download an .fpl or .m3u Astiga is unable to grab the absolute path here - which I get, it's reading a filepath of my hard drive, not the virtual pCloud drive I have this music stored and synced within Astiga.
Any assistance on this would be amazing :)
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If it's a one-off any you can save it as a .m3u file instead I don't mind editing the playlist file for you. You'll need to have a consistent folder structure at some level. E.g. if the playlist is like:
And your Astiga library is like:
It should work. But if anything below "Music" is different it will not work.
There are multiple playlists and I'm adding to it basically every week, but the structure is:
On the PC: F:\Users\Marko\Music\MyMusic\Aphex Twin\Cheetah
On pCloud: /Music/MyMusic/Aphex Twin/Cheetah
So the structure seems like it is mirroring but I'd love to know how to batch edit these. If it's basically a manual process going to be rough.
I can send you the first file I have but if you could let me know how to adjust the filepath (looks like it's merely through text editor and me removing the path prior to music)?
Basically if you remove the
F:\Users\Markoit should work. Forward and backward slashes are treated the same. You need to re-import it into Astiga each time (I think it would be better if we just did this as part of sync).Alright, so I removed the path string you called out, saved the text file.
For instance: \Music\My Music\Alice In Chains\Sap\02 - Got Me Wrong.flac that did the trick! Thanks!
I've encountered another issue with my playlists created in Astiga itself - it's telling me all the tracks are unsynced.
I've synced my library several times and it's still having issues / remains unchanged. Not sure what the problem is.. I go to the song directly in my library and it's fine, seems like it's not grabbing it properly?
It seems like the track titles are incorrectly being tagged... for instance:
Unsynced track:
/My Music/Protomartyr/Relatives In Descent/12 - Half Sister.mp3
I got directly in the Astiga library, the same track is tagged appropriately
12 Half Sister
Protomartyr / Relatives In Descent
Looking at the sync logs, we go into a `/Music/My Music/` folder in which
Protomartyrexists. However, if the playlist path only has `My Music` that won't match. So I think you need to change the M3Us to use `Music/My Music`.Looking at the other playlists it looks like there are further problems. For example in the first playlist I saw, there were paths in the form `/Music/[artist name]`. It would also need the `My Music` parent folder in there.
I couldn't actually see the M3U playlists you were importing. I did see one in the root which does have the `Music/My Music` prefixes, but the actual music under that doesn't exist.
If you'd prefer to continue this by email please do so: info@asti.ga
To re-iterate:
This is the strange thing here - the other playlists were built through the web player so I didn't import it from anywhere. They just kind of broke and it must of been something with the folder structure I likely changed slightly without realizing.
Appreciate the help with all of this! All good on my end.