[How to do instruction] MP3 Playlist Creation

[TheOldPresbyope]

I'm not sure I understand your concern. There does not need to be a .m3u file in each album directory. Once MPD has indexed the collection, You can select and play an entire album from the Library view without any. As it happens, almost none of the albums on my NAS have an associated .m3u file.

Practically, maintenance of a scheme such as you suggest would seem nightmarish. AFAIK the .m3u file created by the usual tagging program references tracks simply by their base fllenames. To make them work in the MPD playlists directory, every file reference in every .m3u file would have to edited to reference the file with respect to the root of the MPD music directory, typically NAS/... .

Hence, an entry in the .m3u file in the directory for my never-released demo tape might be

Code:

1.Kent Begs Forgiveness.flac

and would have to become something like the following in a .m3u file in moOde's playlists directory

Code:

NAS/OMV/Post Modern/Kent/DemoTape/1.Kent Begs Forgiveness.flac

It's doable, but a lot of bookkeeping as files and directories move around during library maintenance.

Then again, perhaps I'm misunderstanding your issue.

Regards,
Kent