Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format

Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by rsync on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:53PM (#13768185)

You know what always, always works ?

Copying the actual songs into a directory that becomes "the playlist".

It's very inefficient and inelegant but after the 100th car stereo I encountered that couldn't make sense of the most basic m3u file, I just gave up ... my "playlists" are just more copies of the actual songs.

Problem solved.

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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by StavrosK on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:08PM (#13768365)

I did that too, and then uploaded those files on Google Music, and now I want to get them back (with the songs I've added since), and... oops.

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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by choward on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:04PM (#13768323)

You could combine both solutions and process a playlist file to put copies in a directory whenever you need to actually use the playlist.

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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by ibizaman on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:38AM (#13775454)

That's where fuse really shines. For example (note I never used it) https://github.com/rtokarev/m3ufs2

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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by ibizaman on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:36AM (#13775431)

You can avoid wasting disk space by using symlinks/hardlinks. And I must agree, a filesystem interface is always neat.

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