GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 655686
Feature request: Toggle to export playlists with absolute or relative pathnames
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:28:10 UTC
Sometimes it's beneficial to store playlists (as they are now) with relative pathnames. (ie: ../../../../Music/A/Adele/Song.mp3) However, sometimes those playlists are imported into a music player that's running on a different username, and can benefit from absolute pathnames (ie: /home/user1/Music/A/Adele/Song.mp3). My request is that a preference be set in the UI that allows export of pathnames in the playlist be either relative (default, current behavior) or absolute. Benefit: Squeezebox Server runs under a different username than the logged in user, and cannot make use of relative pathnames because of this.
I would like to add a third option "flat list", where the m3u would have just the song file name without any pathnames. This would be very useful to export a playlist physically (not to another synced player, but to a plain folder eg to give to a friend). The use case is the following: 1. create tmp folder 2. from Banshee drag'n drop the song files to the tmp folder (already implemented) 3. from Banshee export the playlist to the tmp folder with the "flat list" option 4. the playlist can then play the songs in the tmp folder
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.