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       Playlists don't work
    CyberNeuroSurgeo...
    post Jun 17 2009, 02:25 PM
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    I've had no success getting a playlist to work. Has anyone been able to make a playlist work? If so, how?

    My attempts are as follows:

    Music (.wma files) were copied to a USB 2.0 external disk (drive Z: on my computer) in Z:\My Music, which has a subfolder \My Playlists.

    Using Windows Media Player 11.0.5721.5260, the Z:\My Music folder was added to the library, and a playlist was created in Z:\My Music\My Playlists named test1.wpl. Contents listed at end.

    Pressing the Pause/Play button shows a red circle with a diagonal line (not available) on the screen. Pressing "Enter" takes me to the \My Music folder.

    Using WinAmp 5.5, I added Z:\My Music to the media library, created a playlist and exported it to Z:\Mu Music\My playlists as testWinAmp1.m3u (contents at end). Same results as Windows Media Player.

    I hacked the WinAmp file as testWinAmp2.m3u, and copied it to the Z: root directory. Still the same results as before.

    File: test1.wpl
    QUOTE
    <?wpl version="1.0"?>
    <smil>
    <head>
    <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 11.0.5721.5260"/>
    <meta name="AverageRating" content="50"/>
    <meta name="TotalDuration" content="4220"/>
    <meta name="ItemCount" content="17"/>
    <title>WDTV Soothing Music</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <seq>
    <media src="..\01-Pachelbel _ Cannon In D Major _ Dreamworld.wma" cid="{6191DD4C-4A63-47A3-BFE6-327DD8B234D5}" tid="{A8FD902F-FBAB-45FE-9E9B-6CC1F38A041B}"/>
    <media src="..\02-Bach _ Air _ Like A Breath Of Fresh Air.wma" cid="{B9040130-8141-4915-8974-54BA461BCFC9}" tid="{CD201762-6023-49B5-9BBE-4C55F4EF2727}"/>
    .
    .
    .
    </seq>
    </body>
    </smil>

    File: testWinAmp1.m3u
    QUOTE
    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:262,Various - Pachelbel / Cannon In D Major / Dreamworld
    Z:\My Music\01-Pachelbel _ Cannon In D Major _ Dreamworld.wma
    #EXTINF:213,Various - Bach / Air / Like A Breath Of Fresh Air
    Z:\My Music\02-Bach _ Air _ Like A Breath Of Fresh Air.wma
    .
    .
    .

    File: testWinAmp2.m3u
    QUOTE
    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:262,Various - Pachelbel / Cannon In D Major / Dreamworld
    \My Music\01-Pachelbel _ Cannon In D Major _ Dreamworld.wma
    #EXTINF:213,Various - Bach / Air / Like A Breath Of Fresh Air
    \My Music\02-Bach _ Air _ Like A Breath Of Fresh Air.wma
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    CyberNeuroSurgeo...
    post Sep 15 2009, 03:43 PM
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    After much back and forth with WD support (and with almost no intentional support on their part), I've finally figured out what is going on.

    Apparently, the WD engineers don't understand that a playlist specifies the ORDER as well as the names of the files to be played. When a playlist is selected (using the ENTER button), only the files from that playlist are presented in alphabetical order. When the PLAY button is pressed, the files are played in alphabetical order, not the order from the original playlist. Thus, one has to "hack" the filenames in order to get a specific order. I've pointed out to them that this is NOT the way playlists work with Media Player, iTUNES or WinAMP.

    In the example playlist I sent to them, I had a file named 01-Pachelbel.wma as the first entry and 01-Twinkle.wma as the 10th entry. When the playlist is displayed, 01-Twinkle.wma is the second entry, and plays as the second song.

    Based on the poor support for this questions, I wil probably never by another WD product. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/angry.gif)
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    - CyberNeuroSurgeon   Playlists don't work   Jun 17 2009, 02:25 PM
    - - neverlift   Hi CyberNeuroSurgeon, Welcome to the forums! ...   Jun 18 2009, 12:57 PM
    |- - CyberNeuroSurgeon   Library mode is definitely turned on. The results ...   Jun 19 2009, 03:33 PM
    |- - audiophile   I have working M3U playlists, using RELATIVE addre...   Jun 20 2009, 12:29 AM
    |- - jayvee   I spent a ton of time ripping CDs to a hard drive ...   Aug 21 2009, 07:48 PM
    - - badger   I have found no problems creating and using playli...   Oct 10 2009, 02:27 PM
    - - srb151   Hello everyone, I've really been enjoying our...   Dec 8 2009, 08:22 AM
    - - WDUser   Since the WD TV is Linux-based (and thus most prob...   Dec 8 2009, 03:50 PM
    |- - srb151   QUOTE (WDUser @ Dec 8 2009, 04:50 PM) Sin...   Dec 9 2009, 12:27 PM
    - - WDUser   Strange... BTW, what are you using to create your ...   Dec 9 2009, 03:29 PM
    |- - srb151   QUOTE (WDUser @ Dec 9 2009, 04:29 PM) Str...   Dec 9 2009, 04:30 PM
    - - WDUser   Sounds like a hardware issue then. Not that I have...   Dec 9 2009, 11:27 PM
    |- - srb151   QUOTE (WDUser @ Dec 10 2009, 12:27 AM) So...   Dec 10 2009, 06:48 AM
    |- - srb151   Well 7 days after my initial email through the WD ...   Dec 15 2009, 05:36 PM
    |- - srb151   So today I decided to take another approach with W...   Dec 17 2009, 12:38 PM
    - - WDUser   Ok, that sucks and moreover, sounds like an extrem...   Dec 17 2009, 01:28 PM
    |- - srb151   QUOTE (WDUser @ Dec 17 2009, 01:28 PM) Ok...   Dec 25 2009, 08:37 PM
    |- - srb151   Well it gets weirder now. I've just read how ...   Jan 28 2010, 12:38 AM
    - - WDUser   To what depth do playlists work then on an NTFS dr...   Jan 28 2010, 04:06 PM
    |- - srb151   QUOTE (WDUser @ Jan 28 2010, 04:06 PM) T...   Jan 29 2010, 08:26 AM
    |- - WDUser   QUOTE (srb151 @ Jan 29 2010, 06:56 PM) On...   Jan 29 2010, 02:34 PM
    - - mboma   I had the same problem, and I find the solution. ...   Jan 19 2012, 02:00 AM
    - - natsuto   Are you sure you have the correct capitalization o...   Mar 4 2012, 09:48 PM

     

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