Accessing the pre-made playlists

[Sergio]

Well, after many trial and errors, I finally succeeded in making it work. Here are a few observations.

1. ML2 does not seem to support the "extended M3U" format, which is the one used by Windows Media Player when saving playsists as M3U. The playlists worked and PVRX2 stopped crashing when I removed everything that was not strictly a path to a music file. For example the following original M3U generated by WMP:

Code:

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:0,16 Las Calles del Sur.wma
Florence K\Bossa Blue\16 Las Calles del Sur.wma

made PVRX2 crash, while the (manually) stripped down version:

Code:

Florence K\Bossa Blue\16 Las Calles del Sur.wma

worked perfectly.

2. ML2 seems to ignore accented characters when resolving a playlist. For example, in the following M3U:

Code:

Florence K\Bossa Blue\16 Las Calles del Sur.wma
Michael Bublé\Michael Bublé\11 The Way You Look Tonight.wma
Dance Music\12 Piste 12.mp3

only the first and last songs are displayed as playlist tracks in M2. However, ML2 handles all characters very well anywhere else in the music library. The same happens with:

Code:

los nathos\latin ballroom dancing\11 Samba Medley.mp3
los nathos\latin ballroom dancing\10 Tu Ausencia.mp3
Isabelle Boulay\Alys Robi\04 Brésil.mp3
los nathos\latin ballroom dancing\08 maria.mp3
Dance Music\09 Piste 9.mp3

where the third track is absent from the list displayed by ML2.

Regards,
Sergio

[psycik]

Well, after many trial and errors, I finally succeeded in making it work. Here are a few observations.

1. ML2 does not seem to support the "extended M3U" format, which is the one used by Windows Media Player when saving playsists as M3U. The playlists worked and PVRX2 stopped crashing when I removed everything that was not strictly a path to a music file. For example the following original M3U generated by WMP:

Code:

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:0,16 Las Calles del Sur.wma
Florence K\Bossa Blue\16 Las Calles del Sur.wma

made PVRX2 crash, while the (manually) stripped down version:

Code:

Florence K\Bossa Blue\16 Las Calles del Sur.wma

worked perfectly.

thats strange, I know I don't process and use that extended information but I thought i ignored it. I'm working on playlists at the moment and so can make sure I check this. This would be a playlist created in windows media player correct?

2. ML2 seems to ignore accented characters when resolving a playlist. For example, in the following M3U:

Code:

Florence K\Bossa Blue\16 Las Calles del Sur.wma
Michael Bublé\Michael Bublé\11 The Way You Look Tonight.wma
Dance Music\12 Piste 12.mp3

only the first and last songs are displayed as playlist tracks in M2. However, ML2 handles all characters very well anywhere else in the music library. The same happens with:

Code:

los nathos\latin ballroom dancing\11 Samba Medley.mp3
los nathos\latin ballroom dancing\10 Tu Ausencia.mp3
Isabelle Boulay\Alys Robi\04 Brésil.mp3
los nathos\latin ballroom dancing\08 maria.mp3
Dance Music\09 Piste 9.mp3

where the third track is absent from the list displayed by ML2.

very potentially. When I originally did this I used a not very reliable method for constructing the path, and also I wouldn't have seen any playlists with not english characterset characters.

[Sergio]

This would be a playlist created in windows media player correct?

Yes.

When I originally did this I used a not very reliable method for constructing the path, and also I wouldn't have seen any playlists with not english characterset characters.

French, Spanish, Italian and quite a lot of other languages with accented characters are at the source of pretty good music. Would this be something you can easily resolve in a patch or in a future release of ML2?