A simple script that creates M3U playlist files based on folder trees distribution.
My car has an MP3 player that scans USB drives in their own way:
- Only recognizes folders with MP3 files inside, you can not play a folder with subfolders.
- The playing order of the songs is purely alphabetical, so the song number "10" will be played before the number "2", while most of the software that plays MP3 files knows how to deal with this problem.
What was my solution? Create M3U playlists files in each folder with the correct order.
The MP3 player of the car has two options: search by folder or search lists. With the right lists it is possible to remedy the mentioned deficits.
It is expected a folder structure like the following:
+-- Artist Withnoalbums
| +-- 01 Song.mp3
| +-- 02 Song.mp3
| +-- 03 Song.mp3
+-- Artist1
| +-- Album1
| +-- 01 Song.mp3
| +-- 02 Song.mp3
| +-- 03 Song.mp3
| +-- Album2
| +-- 01 Song.mp3
| +-- 02 Song.mp3
| +-- 03 Song.mp3
+-- Artist2
| +-- Album1
| +-- 01 Song.mp3
| +-- 02 Song.mp3
| +-- 03 Song.mp3
The script will create the following M3U lists:
- Artist Withnoalbums.m3u
- Artist1.m3u
- Artist1 - Album1.m3u
- Artist1 - Album2.m3u
- Artist2 - Album1.m3u
Note that the "generic" Artist2.m3u list is not generated because the artist has only one album.
Of course, the order of the songs is in this lists the correct =)
This software is published under the MIT License (MIT).
Copyright (c) 2015 carsevilla (https://github.com/carsevilla)
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