Fix Playlist?

Started by Philidor11,

Philidor11

This is probably more appropriate to a playlist manager than a player, but if you don't mind my asking...
How difficult would it be to have the playlist search for a file that isn't where it was?  Currently, XMPlay draws a red line through a missing file.
Problem is, having a lot of files, I sometimes reorganize them.  This means I have to throw out my playlists and start again.
I've been searching for software for a long time that will look for a file with the same name on the hard drive and correct the playlist.  I did find one, a difficult to use set of scripts for DOS which would locate missing files, even correct for minor title changes (like Vivaldi- to Vivaldi -).  But that site seems to have disappeared.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Ralesk

Thanks for suggesting, this one has been bothering me too.

It would be cool to have perhaps a separate pls editor do this, even featured with some disk-rearranging capabilities (move, rename, etc.).

Pike84

Hmm.. Nice ideas. Remember though, that you can move, rename and stuff in 'add files' dialog anyway :).

Ralesk

I usually don't feel the need of rearranging my files the moment I'm adding them, but it might happen that a couple months later I just mess with my directories and files and then I get a big amount of redlines.

Pike84

Yeah, I've experienced that quite a lot myself. In a big playlist, it'd be nice to know all the tracks are "alive" (as opposed to being "dead" :P) by default :).