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Instruction Guide MP3 Playlist Creation
#1
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm having trouble creating a playlist for my mp3 files.

I've copied them to /var/lib/mpd/music/SDCARD. I'm aware the playlist are stored /var/lib/mpd/playlists.  I just have Default Playlist.m3u in that directory currently. The file is blank though.  I removed the radio stations that were added by default on a new Moode 4.2 build on my PiZeroW as my application will never require radio stations.

When I use my browser on Windows PC, the Music tab shows my Music Library. I can right click the library and I'm given Add, Play, Clear/Play as options. If I choose add, all of my 100+ mp3 files show up in the Playback tab and I can play them without issue.

After I shutdown the Playback tab has been cleared. How do I make it permanent? My pi is used in the car with a DAC connecting Moode to my stock stereo's AUX port.   I've set Auto-Shuffle to ON, and Autoplay after start to ON. The idea is when I start the car Moode starts up and plays, and when I return to the car the playlist continues to shuffle.

I've checked online a bit and it seems I can create a m3u playlist using a text editor, but I'm not sure of the syntax Moode requires and would honestly prefer a more automated solution. Some mp3 file names are so long and I'm not that good at typing.  I'll make tons of mistakes for sure.  Even if I did make a playlist manually, does it reside in the playlist directory, or the same directory as the mp3 files?

Thanks in advance,
Andy
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#2
The main Playlist is permanent unless you manually clear it. There is no setting, MPD automatically saves it to its state file.
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#3
After a little playing around I think I have it working to my liking. I used SSH, went to /var/lib/mpd/music/SDCARD and then used ls to list the name of all my MP3s. I copied them all to the default playlist file Default Playlist.m3u in /var/lib/mpd/playlists. Then I added /SDCARD/ to the beginning of each MP3 file name and saved the playlist.

I tested it several times after shutdown and so far it seems to be working.

I previously had Moode 4.1 and it seemed that when I added a song to the playlist it stayed permanently. Not sure why it would not this time around. I had to build 4.2 several times before it would work. I followed what FizzyTea did here:  http://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=307. I built Moode 4.2 on a Pi3. I then slotted my sd card into the pi zero w and have a working Moode player v4.2.

Maybe its just my build but over the last few days I rebuilt Moode 4.2 about 6 times until I got it working to my liking.

It's a great project, I love it.  Keep up the fantastic work.
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