export a *portable* playlist, including music files

[Kyle O'Donnell]

find /path/to/music -name "*.mp3..." > file.m3u

then when you move the m3u file over make sure the path is the same or use
 sed or vi to mass change if diff

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> sometimes i want to share a playlist with someone.  I guess i could burn
> a cd, but since no one has cd players anymore, i'd rather export a
> directory containing both the music and a playlist.  Ideally it should
> be possible to just drop the directory into some file sharing service
> (dropbox, ubuntuone, ifolder, or whatever) and have a mac-or
> windows-using friend just grab the directory, import the playlist, and
> play it in itunes or whatever (unless someone has a better suggestion).
>
> Oh, and i should say that right now i'm using the Goggles Music Manager
> (http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ ) to manage music, but could try
> whatever i needed to for this project (though amarok slows my system
> down to a crawl right now, so i'd sort of rather not do it that way).
>
> Anyway now that everyone only plays music on their computers, this seems
> like a nearly-essential feature that i'd really love to have...
>
> look forward to everyone's suggestions!
>
>
> --
> Matt Price
> matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
>
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