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Markus Gratis
Asked: 2016-10-05 07:33:27 +0800 CST

Relative File Path m3u

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I want a playlist to refer to a relative file path, so I can copy it to my mobile phone or any future drive and it will still work.

The playlist is located in /home/gratis/Music/Hip-Hop/50 Cent/The Very Best Of 50 Cent/11 - Patiently Waiting (ft. Eminem).m3u, and its entries are:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:286,Eminem - Patiently Waiting (ft. 50 Cent)
/home/gratis/Music/Hip-Hop/Eminem/The EMINEM Anthology/074 - Patiently Waiting (ft. 50 Cent).opus

So, that's basically two directories up from where it's located -> Eminem -> The EMINEM Anthology -> music file.

I replaced /home/gratis with .., and tried Mark Kirby's suggestion (replacing /home/gratis with ~), but neither of those attempts worked. How can I make these paths relative and/or portable?

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  1. Best Answer

    for a relative path it is interesting where the playlist is located. --> the paths are relative... relative to what? for sure the playlist! ;-)

    • for example the easiest is, everything is located in the same folder... then just delete the complete paths except the filenames and that's it: track.flac
    • or lets assume a sampler with more than one disc in sub-folders: disc1/track.flac
    • or the other way round; the playlist is located in a sub-folder: ../track.flac --> ../ stands for one folder up.
    • and the combination; a sampler with more discs and also playlists in different sub-folders: ../disk1/track.flac

    the difference for absolute or relative paths are just the leading /!

    so... to combine all them together for your case, the correct relative path would be ../../Eminem/The EMINEM Anthology/074 - Patiently Waiting (ft. 50 Cent).opus (if i'm right). ;-)

    --> but keep in mind changing the folder structure will in most cases also mess up relative playlists, except just renaming the playlist-folder(s).

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