Playlist Bug with "..\" or "../"
Folders and files are like this:
D:\Music - MP3\Favourites\[alphabetic_sets]\[band_name]\[album]\[tracksXX.mpr]
and
D:\Music - MP3\Favourites\Playlists\[band_name.m3u]
where [alphabetic_sets] just means folders labelled A-C; D-G and so on, to split them up for faster scrolling.
Serviio is set scan D:\Music - MP3
All actual files play fine - if not selected via playlist.
All playlist file entries are in this form:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:312,Back In Black - 01 - 01: Hell's Bells
..\Favourites\A-C\AC-DC\1980 - Back In Black\01 - Hell's Bells.mp3
etc
---- None of these playlists have any content according any client renderer pointed to the Serviio server.
NB....
There are about 115 playlist in the folder. All created with Playlist Creator 3.6.2.
All playlists play perfectly when selected via DLNA/UPNP with Foobar2000, VLC, and my media player (a Cambridge Audio Evo) - all pointed to a Universal Media Player server, or an Emby server on the same PC. The playlists and music files also play perfectly when the same files and folder structures are on my RAID/NAS, which runs Twonky.
If I make a test playlist, and move it a folder above where the music folders are stored, such that the playlist is like this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:312,Back In Black - 01 - 01: Hell's Bells
Favourites\A-C\AC-DC\1980 - Back In Black\01 - Hell's Bells.mp3
(note "..\" not needed)
... the playlist works.
If simply edit the first mentioned playlist, in the "Playlists" folder to read:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:312,Back In Black - 01 - 01: Hell's Bells
../Favourites/A-C/AC-DC/1980 - Back In Black/01 - Hell's Bells.mp3
(i.e. using forward slashes)
... the playlist works.
To me, given that it is ONLY Serviio that cannot handle playlists using "..\" it looks like a parsing problem. Given that serviio handles "/" in all other cases, and also handles "../" it should be an easy fix, right?
You could say "why not mass edit playlist to change "\" to "/", but then I know other players - such as my car (SD card) will not b able to use the same playlists and I'll have to maintain separate, target device-specific ones which is a pain!
Apologies if I have misunderstood anything about how to set up serviio on Windows....