Droid plus Subsonic is killer

TheRandom1 · Sep 14, 2010

It knows where most of them are though, that's the part I don't understand.

Here's an example of an iTunes playlist:

D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Red, White & Crüe [Disc 2]\09 Shout At The Devil.mp3

And a WMP playlist:

<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\02 Face Down In The Dirt.mp3"/>

Aside from the "<media src" part, they both say the same type of location, right?

And when I loaded the playlist from WMP, it also didn't work.

MrLethalWeapon · Sep 14, 2010

I've actually been struggling with something similar. I use MediaMonkey to manage my library which is on a different computer (along with Subsonic).

Whenever I made an .m3u playlist from that library using my workstation, the tracks would be saved with the relative path, and I'd have to manually edit the entries with notepad.

I got sick of it, and found an add-on that will let me customize the playlist creation, so switching between relative and absolute paths is as simple as clicking a check-box.

Export M3Us For Child Nodes

Now I just highlight the songs I want included in the playlist, click "Export to .m3u playlist" and save it in my Subsonic playlist directory.

MrLethalWeapon · Sep 14, 2010

TheRandom1 said:
It knows where most of them are though, that's the part I don't understand.

Here's an example of an iTunes playlist:

D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Red, White & Crüe [Disc 2]\09 Shout At The Devil.mp3

And a WMP playlist:

<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\02 Face Down In The Dirt.mp3"/>

Aside from the "<media src" part, they both say the same type of location, right?

And when I loaded the playlist from WMP, it also didn't work.

Please copy and paste the following onto a post:

1. an example of one of your complete WMP playlists
2. the path setup for your music folder on your subsonic server (for example: mine is "\\PUNISHER\Album Archive")

edit: I gotta get some rest. I'll check the forum to see how things are going tomorrow.

TheRandom1 · Sep 15, 2010

MrLethalWeapon said:
Please copy and paste the following onto a post:

1. an example of one of your complete WMP playlists
2. the path setup for your music folder on your subsonic server (for example: mine is "\\PUNISHER\Album Archive")

edit: I gotta get some rest. I'll check the forum to see how things are going tomorrow.

The music is all in this main folder:
D:\Tunes\Music
From there it goes to folders sorted by artist/album/

Here is a copy of the WMP playlist that I tested with the Motley Crue SOLA album that doesn't work with iTunes either. (wpl file)

<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 12.0.7600.16415"/>
<meta name="ItemCount" content="0"/>
<title>motley crue</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\Saints of Los Angeles.m4a"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\01 L.A.M.F..mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\02 Face Down In The Dirt.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\03 Down At The Whisky.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\04 Mother****er Of The Year.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\06 Just Another Psycho.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\07 The Animal In Me.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\07 Chicks = Trouble.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\08 Goin' Out Swingin'.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\10 What's it gonna take.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\11 Welcome to the machine.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\12 This ain't a love song.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\13 White trash circus.mp3"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>

MrLethalWeapon · Sep 15, 2010

TheRandom1 said:
The music is all in this main folder:
D:\Tunes\Music
From there it goes to folders sorted by artist/album/

Here is a copy of the WMP playlist that I tested with the Motley Crue SOLA album that doesn't work with iTunes either. (wpl file)

#EXTM3U

<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 12.0.7600.16415"/>
<meta name="ItemCount" content="0"/>
<title>motley crue</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\Saints of Los Angeles.m4a
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\01 L.A.M.F..mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\02 Face Down In The Dirt.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\03 Down At The Whisky.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\04 Mother****er Of The Year.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\06 Just Another Psycho.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\07 The Animal In Me.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\07 Chicks = Trouble.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\08 Goin' Out Swingin'.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\10 What's it gonna take.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\11 Welcome to the machine.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\12 This ain't a love song.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\13 White trash circus.mp3"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>

Replace the contents of that playlist with this, and see if it works in Subsonic:

Code:

#EXTM3U
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\Saints of Los Angeles.m4a
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\01 L.A.M.F..mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\02 Face Down In The Dirt.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\03 Down At The Whisky.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\04 Mother****er Of The Year.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\06 Just Another Psycho.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\07 The Animal In Me.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\07 Chicks = Trouble.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\08 Goin&apos; Out Swingin&apos;.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\10 What&apos;s it gonna take.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\11 Welcome to the machine.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\12 This ain&apos;t a love song.mp3
D:\Tunes\Music\Mötley Crüe\Saints Of Los Angeles\13 White trash circus.mp3

If it does, then you'll know what the problem is.

All I did was:
1. Remove the HTML tags at the top and bottom of the file.

2. Remove the

Code:

<media src="

at the beginning of each track.

3. Remove the

Code:

"/>

at the end of each track.

4. Add

Code:

#EXTM3U

to the top of the file.

The 'find and replace' feature in a text editor will help you take care of most of that quickly.

TheRandom1 · Sep 15, 2010

Now this is odd. I realized there were two playlists (apparently I did not delete the iTunes one) and the windows media player one does not show up at all.

icculusX · Sep 15, 2010

Sorry if this was mentioned already... This sounds like the same exact idea as ORB (Welcome - Orb) where you can stream media from your home PC on your phone or on another computer with the internet. I use ORB at work all the time to listen to my MP3's at home, and use it on my Droid too. I also have used it in my basement to watch a movie that was on my computer upstairs. (Orb is a 10$ Droid app and a free membership for the computer)

Which is better and why?

TheRandom1 · Sep 15, 2010

icculusX said:
Sorry if this was mentioned already... This sounds like the same exact idea as ORB (Welcome - Orb) where you can stream media from your home PC on your phone or on another computer with the internet. I use ORB at work all the time to listen to my MP3's at home, and use it on my Droid too. I also have used it in my basement to watch a movie that was on my computer upstairs. (Orb is a 10$ Droid app and a free membership for the computer)

Which is better and why?

I tried ORB at the same time as I started using SubSonic. ORB is nice and all, but it took wayyyyyyy too long to load my music collection. Three and a half days to load my 45 GB collection is insane. Plus, about 1,000 songs didn't load for no apparent reason.

mdleal · Sep 16, 2010

Anybody get video to stream?

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