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Trouble with getting your DNS-323 media server to use your .m3u playlists because of path problems? I wrote a little application to fix up the paths in you playlists for the323 media server.

I have a DNS-323 running firefly and it worked great except that my .m3u playlists didn't work because the DNS didn't know what the path \\SHARED_DRIVE\Volume_1\Music\ means because as far as it's concerned, the path is /mnt/HD_a2/Music/.

So I wrote a little application to take all my playlists, fix all the paths, and write them back. (To a new location or optionally to overwrite the originals.) Now my playlists work perfectly too.

The app is a java application and is available here: http://www.mortonet.net/software/index. … aylist2NAS.

This is the very first version of the software. It works for me, and I hope it works for you. I'd really welcome any feedback you have. Feedback to bugs.at.mortonet.net (replace .at. with @).

Notes:
    * It's written in Java and you need Java installed to run it. So it should work on a PC, Mac, linux, or others.
    * It turns out that you need a pretty recent version of Java (1.6) for this to work. I'm working on eliminating this restriction, but it's there for now. If you double-click on the application and it does nothing, this is probably the cause.
    * There's no help file at the moment. The app is very simple so it should be pretty self-explanatory.
    * It sometimes starts with a strange aspect ratio. Just drag the bottom right corner till it has a more reasonable portrait-mode sort or ratio. (I'm a programmer by trade, but I'm new to Java.)


Enjoy,
Steve Morton
Ottawa Canada



Trusting software off the net.
I generally don't trust software I just find anywhere on the 'net. So here are a couple of references. It's not great, but it's the best I've got:
    * Here's another application I developed. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4046 . You can see the link to my website.
    * I helped develop this website: http://www.capitaldining.ca/. You can see that the "Steve" link at the bottom of this website points to my website.

Last edited by smorton (2009-12-06 05:44:00)