Support M3U paths starting with /storage/

[paradoxical95]

Support M3U paths starting with /storage/

[OxygenCobalt]

Can I have a sample playlist file? @paradoxical95

[OxygenCobalt]

Okay, so Black Player just outputs the absolute android path (with /storage/emulated/0) with their M3U files. Auxio expects absolute paths that are at least relative to their volume, since it's somewhat difficult to work with volume info and it's not cross-compatible with PCs. Evidently I'll need to handle and support this.

Try seeing if Black Player supports exporting with relative M3U paths. Auxio should support those fine @paradoxical95.

[OxygenCobalt]

That's weird. Relative paths are usually supported by most players.

You would need to edit the files and remove all instances of /storage/B8E5-FB87 or /storage/emulated/0 in the paths. Then Auxio should be able to understand it as an absolute path.

Currently, I cannot work on this fix since a sponsor has prioritized another feature. I will get to it as soon I am done with that.

m3u and m3u8 will not change anything. Those file extensions just signal what the character encoding is.

[OxygenCobalt]

Yeah, that works.

[OxygenCobalt]

Just a suggestion @OxygenCobalt , after importing it asks me to Name the playlist, but instead I suggest it should name whatever the name of the .m3u file was and let the user rename it if need be? Is that possible?

Eh, I don't like the idea of using the M3U filename, it just looks strange.

[paradoxical95]

Yeah sure. Here you go.
FewPlaylists.zip

[paradoxical95]

I checked and currently BlackPlayer doesn't support relative paths.
Can you tell me what I must edit manually? If I can edit those files so that I can make them usable in Auxio? And will you be pushing this in next update?
2Playlists.zip

Edit - I tried an app called "Music Speed Changer" which, for a change, found and exported my playlists in .m3u8 instead of .m3u but that also failed to load from Auxio. Attaching the Zip file above. Has one m3u and one m3u8

[paradoxical95]

Okay. I see. No worries mate, take your time. The app is superb otherwise.
By removing the instances of storage, you mean this right? I should edit all my playlist to look more like this right?
(starting with /MusicMine/... as that's my Music Folder in my SD Card)

[paradoxical95]

Okay so I tried that and it didn't work. Attaching my fixed files. I removed the starting portion as I mentioned before and tried re-importing but it failed again. IDK how to fix this now.
Playlists_Fixed.zip

[OxygenCobalt]

Are the playlists in the same folder as your sd card @paradoxical95? The absolute paths are still treated as relative to volume in Auxio.

[paradoxical95]

Yep, that helped. I made a folder and moved it to the root of my SD card instead of Phone storage and it worked. ! Thanks

Just a suggestion @OxygenCobalt , after importing it asks me to Name the playlist, but instead I suggest it should name whatever the name of the .m3u file was and let the user rename it if need be? Is that possible?

[chocmake]

Eh, I don't like the idea of using the M3U filename, it just looks strange.

fwiw when I save M3U/M3U8 playlists I name the file like I would the playlist in-player (whether desktop or mobile), which means it's the desired title as-is (eg: Video Game OST Selections.m3u8). Perhaps you've encountered some kind of auto-generated playlist filenames leading to a negative association though and prefer normalizing their appearance by a prompt.

[paradoxical95]

Eh, I don't like the idea of using the M3U filename, it just looks strange.

fwiw when I save M3U/M3U8 playlists I name the file like I would the playlist in-player (whether desktop or mobile), which means it's the desired title as-is (eg: Video Game OST Selections.m3u8). Perhaps you've encountered some kind of auto-generated playlist filenames leading to a negative association though and prefer normalizing their appearance by a prompt.

IKR? I do that too but then it became redundant to me. Like my playlist is named "EDMs". Why are you asking me to name it when it's literally named EDMs 🤣

[OxygenCobalt]

Okay. While I could autofill with the file name in the playlist name dialog, the issue is that I don't want someone to have to search for a playlist (possibly within a big list) just to rename it. There's a lot of friction in that process compared to always asking to rename the playlist first.

[KraXen72]

You could have the playlist filename as a placeholder text, and if the name field is submitted empty, it uses the placeholder, otherwise, it uses the value

[OxygenCobalt]

Fixed this. Assuming your phone allows me to access the volumes, it should let me interpret these M3U files correctly.