m3u Playlist for local mp3 files - how to?
despite intensive searches, I haven't found a solution for my relatively simple sounding problem with the current version of Serviio. I have different DLNA devices at home for playing MP3 files, which have different capabilities. Furthermore I have a rather complex MP3 collection, which is structured as follows:
- pop music
-- Artist A
--- album 1
--- album 2
--- album 3
---- CD 1
---- CD 2
-- artist B
--- album 1
album 2
- rock
-- Artist A
--- album 1
--- album 2
--- album 3
---- CD 1
---- CD 2
-- artist B
--- album 1
--- album 2
For example, if I want to play all MP3 songs from Popmusic/Artist A now, then some of my DLNA devices can obviously create their own playlist if I just click on Play in the "Popmusic/Artist A" directory. Other DLNA devices only play the MP3 songs that are in the current directory and ignore all other MP3 songs that are in deeper subdirectories. So I had the clever idea to generate m3u playlists in order to let such stupid DLNA devices play all of an artist's subdirectories.
But: how must such a m3u playlist be formatted for Serviio to deliver this file to the DLNA devices? Where do I have to save this m3u playlist? Can I see and select such a m3u playlist in the web interface of Serviio? Is there perhaps a very simple wiki page where the use of such m3u playlists is explained as playing locally stored MP3 songs?
Greetings,
Hannes