WMP10 Playlists

[Perry Diels]

Hello,

We have added a new hard-disk in our Windows XP PC. The mp3 files were
previously on D:
and now they are on the E: drive. No problem apart from the playlists (.wpl
files)
They don't work anymore because the songs are not on the same
location anymore. When editing the file location (right mouse from WMP 10)
they work again. However I'm looking for a solution in order to have all my
playlists converted at one. If I need to do that for all files individually
(+6000) that's a huge job. Or is there a better workaround to solve this
problem?

Thanks,
Perry

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Perry,

Backup the Playlist file, and make a copy of it for altering (new.wpl). Then
open the new.wpl file using Notepad and then fix the drive-letter / Path
accordingly.

Example: It may use relative paths as given in this example.
- - -
<media src="Tamil\Poongadhave.wma"
tid="{110F31CF-1365-4DE6-8910-ACDA3383943B}"/>
<media src="Tamil\Ilayaraja\ILAYA NILA.mp3"
tid="{593F370F-BEE1-4F7E-991E-D97D575AC892}"/>
<media src="Tamil\Old\Ilayaraja\PANI VIZHUM.mp3"
tid="{01EB2B61-D77E-4594-A685-BEA2EAC667C9}"/>
- - -

Change it as follows: (Set the absolute paths, as given below

- - -
<media src="F:\Tamil\Poongadhave.wma"
tid="{110F31CF-1365-4DE6-8910-ACDA3383943B}"/>
<media src="F:\Tamil\Ilayaraja\ILAYA NILA.mp3"
tid="{593F370F-BEE1-4F7E-991E-D97D575AC892}"/>
<media src="F:\Tamil\Old\Ilayaraja\PANI VIZHUM.mp3"
tid="{01EB2B61-D77E-4594-A685-BEA2EAC667C9}"/>
- - -

You can use the "Replace all" option which is available in Notepad. FYI, I
replaced the string "<media src="" with "<media src=F:\"" and the Playlist
works perfectly.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello,

We have added a new hard-disk in our Windows XP PC. The mp3 files were
previously on D:
and now they are on the E: drive. No problem apart from the playlists (.wpl
files)
They don't work anymore because the songs are not on the same
location anymore. When editing the file location (right mouse from WMP 10)
they work again. However I'm looking for a solution in order to have all my
playlists converted at one. If I need to do that for all files individually
(+6000) that's a huge job. Or is there a better workaround to solve this
problem?

Thanks,
Perry

 

[Perry Diels]

Hello Ramesh,

Thanks for your suggestion. I have tried as you said and it seems to be
working fine. I even found it better to open in Wordpad and use the
'replace' function, in order to have all the paths done at once.

Good solution, thanks again,
Perry

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome, Perry. Notepad's "Replace all" feature is quite sufficient
for me

Windows Media Player Playlist no longer works after moving the audio files
to a different partition?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/editwpl.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello Ramesh,

Thanks for your suggestion. I have tried as you said and it seems to be
working fine. I even found it better to open in Wordpad and use the
'replace' function, in order to have all the paths done at once.

Good solution, thanks again,
Perry

 

[Perry Diels]

Ramesh,

That's funny I never expected to find that function in Notepad. You are
right it is sufficient ;-)
Again something I know!

Best regards,
Perry

You're welcome, Perry. Notepad's "Replace all" feature is quite sufficient
for me

Windows Media Player Playlist no longer works after moving the audio files
to a different partition?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/editwpl.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello Ramesh,

Thanks for your suggestion. I have tried as you said and it seems to be
working fine. I even found it better to open in Wordpad and use the
'replace' function, in order to have all the paths done at once.

Good solution, thanks again,
Perry

Perry,

Backup the Playlist file, and make a copy of it for altering (new.wpl).
Then
open the new.wpl file using Notepad and then fix the drive-letter / Path
accordingly.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Ramesh,

That's funny I never expected to find that function in Notepad. You are
right it is sufficient ;-)
Again something I know!

Best regards,
Perry

You're welcome, Perry. Notepad's "Replace all" feature is quite sufficient
for me

Windows Media Player Playlist no longer works after moving the audio files
to a different partition?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/editwpl.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello Ramesh,

Thanks for your suggestion. I have tried as you said and it seems to be
working fine. I even found it better to open in Wordpad and use the
'replace' function, in order to have all the paths done at once.

Good solution, thanks again,
Perry

Perry,

Backup the Playlist file, and make a copy of it for altering (new.wpl).
Then
open the new.wpl file using Notepad and then fix the drive-letter / Path
accordingly.