create m3u playlist for each individual album, I forgot to while ripping.

[rjxox]

Hey,

I'm new to dbpoweramp and i just used it to rip 200 of my CD's. I forgot or didn't know to add the dsp playlist writer, now I have 200 albums with no individual playlist. The only reason I would like one in each file is for ease while playing on my control 4 system or other players to just add the playlist file and listen to the album rather than clicking each song to add to cue. I tried converting and adding the DSP which works but its tedious to do for each CD. I tried the batch converter but it seems glitchy and only adds the first m3u list. To clarify, I don't want to create a new multi album playlist I just wanted individual playlists for each album. Thank you.

[mkwebman]

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.en_GB.html

VLC is free open source music and video player.

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Playlist/

If you have each CD ripped to its own named folder you should be able to drag each folder to VLC and export the result one folder at a time. You could import a batch of folders and then export a composite playlist which you can easily edit in a text editor.


I could say more on this if you are interested, but am currently largely horizontal with a hip problem and can't easily access my PC.


HTH

[rjxox]

That helps , although a bit of a process. I thought maybe i was missing something with poweramp. Thank you. Hope your hip problem gets better.

[simbun]

Given that playlists are just text files you could just script it:

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.flac -Recurse | Group-Object Directory | ForEach-Object {
    $folderPath = $_.Name
    $flacFiles = $_.Group.Name
    $outputFile = "$folderPath\playlist.m3u8"
    "#EXTM3U`n" + ($flacFiles -join "`n") | Out-File -FilePath $outputFile
}

This is generated by https://zzzcode.ai as I don't know much powershell, but it seems to work. I don't know if Control 4 requires metadata in the playlists, but most don't.

[rjxox]

Thank you