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Windows Media Player 11 Not Detecting Autoplaylists

Every time I open Windows Media Player it fails to detect my autoplaylists stored in <my music library dir>\Playlists. This appears to lead to sync problems since I (exclusively) use ...
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How to remember positions within multiple files in Media Player Classic?

I tend to have many instances of Media Player Classic (Best Player in my opinion) open because I switch from one video to another, then pause and go back to it later (as in, hours or days). Is ...
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How to delete all playlists from Winamp for Android [closed]

How to delete all Winamp playlists from an Android device? For now I can delete one file at a time.
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Are there any Pandora/Slacker like applications to create stations/play lists from personal mp3 library?

I'm interested in having playlists created automatically much in the same way that Pandora and Slacker Radio "create" radio channels. I understand that iTunes has the Genius feature, but this requires ...
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Share Playlists in ITunes and modify it with a NAS Disk

I have a Iomega Storcenter NAS Disk, and i could see and share with other users the playlists, but only one person could modify this list. Is there a way to allow all users to modify this playlist? ...
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How to open an iPhone compatible M3U file on Windows?

This is how the M3U file looks like: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1400000 http://maskedip/http_livestr.str?r=true&id=mbit-test&k=testkey ...
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Loop a single track/element in a XSPF playlist using VLC

I've googled a lot, but I haven't found a solution yet. Is it possible to loop a single track in the XSPF playlist? In terms of a pause, we can do it in a xspf playlist as follows: <track> ...
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How to copy and paste a Windows Media Player 12 playlist tracks to another location

I'm using Windows Media Player 12 and really like it. I have many playlists and I want to copy the music inside to another place on my hard drive. "Open file location" menu of these tracks is not a ...
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youtube - automated playlist [closed]

Has anyone had any success with automating a youtube playlist through the api/gui/external tool or otherwise? For example, the ability to just specify a list of songs (say up to 50 at a time) as ...
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iTunes creating playlists on its own

Why does iTunes create a new playlist and start playing a few seconds from each one when I try to add albums to my library? It means deleting about 400+ playlists, and having to wait a few hours for ...
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Is there a way to remotely edit iTunes playlists?

Essentially, my use case is that I want to edit the iTunes playlists on my desktop computer at home when I'm not in front of that computer. A specific example: I'm at my computer at work, and I ...
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Copy playlists from Winamp to Windows Media Player

I have several large playlists on Winamp that I would like to transfer over to Windows Media Player. Is it do able? Where are playlists stored? Do I have to convert them?
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How to control which order Winamp plays the playlist?

I created a long playlist, then sorted it by filename, now when i press next button to play next track, it doesnt play the next track in the playlist, but something totally random in that list. How ...
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Make a playlist of the albums from all selected songs in iTunes?

If this is possible, I'm sure I'll have to write a script to do it. Essentially, I have a playlist full of a bunch of songs I like. I'd like to be able to run a script and have it take the album of ...
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Is that possible for Windows to play format playlist.m3u8 which made fully support on iOS or Mac?

There is a live TV channels and radio which formatted playlist.m3u8 the file can be play on all the iOS devices and Mac as well I just wonder if there is a possible way to install any component or ...
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Playlist file format for video segments

Is there a playlist file format listing segments of files instead of entire files? For example it would start playing a file jumping straight to 3'12", play it untill 5'42" and switch to the next ...
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Playlist playing order in VLC

When marking several music files in finder, and openning them in VLC, then the player starts playing the last file and stops. What's the trick to make it play the files in the selected order? Or at ...
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Is there a lightweight M3U editor?

I'd like to use an editor to open .m3u files, add MP3s, remove them, and at the end save the .m3u. Is there? Opening a playlist of 3000 files with Winamp only for adding a files is too slow!
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rhythmbox and multiconditional automatic playlists

I'm a rhythmbox player user and use automatic playlists to manage my music views. Automatic playlists are powerfull and are based on conditions of metadata. It works fine for me if I use simple ...
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iTunes importing m3u playlists with special (non-ASCII) characters on OS X

I have Mac OS X and iTunes 10.2.2, and several m3u files (standard, non extended) containing the paths to songs that are already in the library, just not organized into playlists. I ran a Python ...
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iTunes album artwork by playlist

I have a playlist on iTunes but instead of showing the actual artwork of the album I want to show artwork that I have set it to even though they are from the same album. Is it possible?
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How do I create an automatic playlist of albums not recently played?

I'd like to create a smart playlist that includes randomly chosen albums from my music library. Once I listen to the album on my iPod touch, I'd like it to remove that album and substitute a new ...
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iTunes - Duplicate “Purchased on iPhone” playlists

Whenever I purchase music on my phone and then sync with iTunes later, a duplicate "Purchased on iPhone" playlist will be created. The first one will have everything i've purchased in the past, and ...
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Can I create a manual playlist and add podcasts episodes to it - Zune

I do this in iTunes to create a list of must listen podcasts so that I don't miss them. In Zune, I was not able to create podcast episodes to playlist. Does anybody know how to do this?
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Linux mp3 player with specific requirements, especially: playlists with ability to resume for audiobooks

I'm looking for mp3 player (software), running on Linux, but I need one specific option: it needs to be able to remember my position of listening in a given playlist. Scenario: I'm creating a ...
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Is it possible to store playlists in music file metadata?

I have been trying to think of a way to store my playlists completely independently from any one music player, and I think that one way to do this would be to use each song's tags to store the list of ...
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Is there a way to start exactly where one left off from a huge set of audio files?

So maybe a certain media player has this capability? I'm setting this up for a friend, and although I myself am a Linux user, he mostly uses Windows, so it would be preferred if this could work for ...
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iPhone iOS4 'phone made' Playlists disappear when connecting to iTunes

With iOS4 it is possible to make new, named custom playlists directly on the phone. This works fine for me, expect when I connect the iPhone to any machine (mac or pc) that has iTunes running (even ...
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How can I inject clips [ads] in a playlist every x minutes (even if previous clip is not over)

Sorry for the title, I find it quite hard to describe what I want to do in a single sentence We have a few TV here linked to our computer, which we use to display clips about what we do in our sport ...
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Does iTunes provide a way that I can structure a Smart Playlist to include all songs from three non-Smart playlists along with X GB of random music?

I have three playlists: P1, P2, and P3, along with the Music library. I always want all songs in P1, P2, and P3 to be in the smart playlist. However, every time I clear the Smart Playlist, I want all ...
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Is it possible to make a smart playlist in iTunes that's comprised of tracks from unique artists (no one artist appears twice on the list)?

I can't figure out a way to get iTunes to create a playlist where every song in the list is a different unique artist, and no artists or songs are repeated. Is this possible? (using iTunes 10, ...
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Last.fm playlist manager

Is there such a thing as a Last.fm playlist creator/manager? Either an online web application or desktop (Linux and/or OS X) would be fine. Managing playlists through Last.fm's web site is, shall ...
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Software to allow me to quickly build and preview playlists

I've lots of music tracks and would like to put them in a nice order for playlists (e.g. .m3u). Does anybody know of some software to quickly and easily skip through each playlist track and confirm ...
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Where does Songbird stores the playlists?

Songbird is not working right on my machine, i'm trying to recover my playlists...
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Winamp question: Generating 'dynamic playlists' from file playlists -OR- mass-tagging by file playlist

I'm trying to think of a way to do this. I sort my songs into a variety of playlists corresponding to different 'moods' I might have as I listen to them, and some songs fit for more than one kind of ...
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When playlists are created, is a second copy of the song made?

I'm curious about how playlists work, whether they be on a PMP, like the Zune, or on a PC, such as Windows Media Player or the Zune Software... When a playlist is created, is a copy of the song made? ...
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How to right click and play audio folder on Windows Media Player 12

It's always been hard for me to add a music folder with subfolders to Windows Media Player's playlist. I double click a file in the folder (or click on WMP shortcut), WMP opens, and I drag the other ...
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How to restore default iPod playlists on Amarok?

I wanted to "reset" the collection on my iPod and ended up accidentally deleting, through Amarok, all the playlists, including the default ones like "Most Played" and "Highest Rated". Since these are ...
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Is it possible to export my MediaMonkey playlists in Itunes?

I am using both softwares but I would like to import MediaMonkey's playlist in Itunes. Can you tell me how to do it ?
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Need audio player that lists by directory structure

Amarok is nice, and currently the only thing I've tried that will actually play audio from network shares and not lock up. Only problem is that it doesn't seem to list my library by directory/folder ...
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Winamp no longer loads winamp.m3u when it's opened, it starts with an empty playlist

It started happening a few updates ago and I can't figure out if it's some setting that changed or if there's some reason it can't access the file. Has anyone else had this problem and been able to ...
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itunes: can't get playlist to play more than one song w/o having to manually hit “play”?

Something is screwy with my itunes setup... I can play multiple songs after each other from the Music Library, but if I want to play several songs in a row from a playlist, it doesn't seem to work. It ...
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itunes: delete song from playlist

I can't seem to remove a particular song from one of my playlists, but keep it in my collection. Pressing "delete" or "command+delete" doesn't seem to do anything. Option+delete asks me if I want to ...
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Is there a way to make search-based playlists at Amarok 1.4?

I have almost 2 weeks of music in my computer, and I wanna rate all those musics... I use a playlist based on my entire collection + this search: "rating:=0". So I can use global shortcuts to rate ...
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How do I move a Playlist from my iPod Nano to my computer using iTunes?

I made a playlist and put it on my iPod Nano. However, when I was cleaning up the playlists on my computer (removing ones that I didn't play often, if ever), I accidentally deleted one of them that I ...
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keep iTunes and WMP playlists in sync

I use media center for listening to music, however I also use itunes for keeping my iPod in sync. I often create playlists on the go on my iPod, but when I'm at home I prefer media center and often ...
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Removing Duplicates from iTunes playlist

I am facing a problem in iTunes. See above image. All most each song is repeated twice in my play-list. When I opened Finder - it was also duplicated in iTunes folder. What is the secret problem ...
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Restrict an iTunes smart playlist to contain only entire albums

I'm trying to create an "albums not played for the last 3 months" playlist, that I could sync onto my iPod. Is it normal that autofill always chooses the same songs out of my library to fill the iPod ...
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What factors are used to generate Genius Playlists in iTunes?

I'm curious as to all the factors that are taken into account when iTunes constructs a Genius Playlist. Do listening habits such as Play Count and Skipped Count have any effect? Are the ratings that I ...
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playlist order not transfering to iphone [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Preserving smart playlist order on iPhone I have smart playlist that I have manually ordered in iTunes (V9.0) and then transferred the playlist to my iPhone (3G running ...

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