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editing foobar playlist

Please Help!

i've recently spent a great amount of time going through files, building personal playlists.  the problem occures when i try to load the playlists on my other machine that has different drive letter assignments.  i can't just change the drive letter on my machine to match that of the playlists, as all other path associations would be lost. 

does anyone know of a way to modify an existing fb2k playlist file path??

thank you again,

t

editing foobar playlist

Reply #1 –
Hex editor, search and replace.

editing foobar playlist

Reply #2 –
I hate to compare foobar2k with Winamp, but this could be done in Winamp by pressing Ctrl+E which I used a lot. I would like to see this feature in foobar.

editing foobar playlist

Reply #3 –
Hmm, interesting option, but I only see it working for one file at a time. That would get kind of tedious after a while. I do agree that it would be nice if this could be done automatically, but a hex editor with simple search and replace functionality can easily fix your playlists.

Of course, you could also resave your list as M3U or M3U8 and perform the search/replace with Notepad, or your preferred text editor. I'm not sure if editing the FPL files would save you from having to recache all the metadata.

editing foobar playlist

Reply #4 –
Do text editors really save m3us in a correct way?I've tried to make my m3us relative to the current directory (feature request!!!!) by mass search/overwrite with ..\ -> didn't work. Did i do sth wrong?

editing foobar playlist

Reply #5 –
Yes,
agreed, an integrated foobar "Update playlist to <select Dir>" would be a VERY nice Foobar 2000 feature.

...in the meantime, thank you for the recommendation kode54

-t

editing foobar playlist

Reply #6 –
I don't think Hex editor can always work properly. Because the length of a path string is also saved in the .fpl file, Hex editor won't generally count the string length and save it automatically.

But I agree that it is a good method that saving it as .m3u and editing it.

editing foobar playlist

Reply #7 –
Quote
Yes,
agreed, an integrated foobar "Update playlist to <select Dir>" would be a VERY nice Foobar 2000 feature.

...in the meantime, thank you for the recommendation kode54

-t

Maybe the next version would be useful:

"Replace file paths from <select Dir> with <select Dir>."

It would be useful when modifying something at the "root" of the hierarchy tree.

For example:

Code: [Select]
Electronic
  |
  |
  |--Sorted
  |   |  
  |   |--Depeche Mode
  |   |--Misc.
  |  
  |--Unsorted
      |
      |--Client
      |--Goldfrapp


You have to change it to:

Code: [Select]
Electrique
  |
  |
  |--Sorted no.2
  |   |  
  |   |--Depeche Mode
  |   |--Misc.
  |  
  |--Unsorted
      |
      |--Client
      |--Goldfrapp