iTunes playlists into SageTV

[mscottsimon]

I'm a noob so bear with me. I'm about 20 days into SageTV and so far so good...

I would like to be able to import my iTunes playlists into STV. Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

.scott

[Crim]

You'll need to export the playlist from iTunes but the problem is iTunes only does this in XML or a text file so you'll need an app to convert the XML/text playlist into an M3U playlist for SageTV (and pretty much every other music player).
http://chimpen.com/things/archives/001450.php

[xlr8shun]

the m3u file format is nothing but a text file, plain text with the path to each file on a seperate line. it can contain some comments, prefixed with a #, but not mandatory.

not knowing how itunes exports its text playlists because i dont have it installed currently, but assuming it is as described above, you could just change the extension to .m3u and sage should import it.

the way i create playlists for my albums is fairly simple, and if you had a lot of albums to do you could implement into a batch file fairly easy for automated playlist creation.

anyway, open up a cmd prompt, cd into the directory in question (the one that contains the mp3s you want to put into a playlist. then issue the command dir /s /b > playlist.m3u. a playlist will be created in the directory you are in, called "playlist.m3u". you can play around with the switches (find availble switch for the dir cmd by typing dir /? at the cmd prompt. i like to use dir /s /b /a-h also, i keep my cover art, and other things in the dir except my mp3's set +h (hidden attribute) and specifying the /a-h tells the dir command to skip over hidden files.

anyway if itunes txt playlist option spits out a text file, with a path (relative or other) to each file, where each file is on a seperate line, and thats all that is included, then just rename it to m3u and its a done deal