How do you create (AND SAVE) playlists?

Posted by: Gavin B on 16 March 2017

Creating playlists within the Naim app is really easy, however, my experience is that it's all too easy for these to get lost during re-installations or updates of the app. Assuming there's no simple, fool-proof method of preventing this (please tell me if so!), what other methods do you use to create playlsists visible / useable by the Naim app?

Some time ago I created a test playlist on my media PC using Media Monkey (?). The playlist seems pretty permanent - I always see it in the Asset / app.  However, creating larger playlists seemed to be a real pain through the Media Monkey interface. Is there anything else that's as easy as within the Naim app?

Posted on: 16 March 2017 by Bananahead

Well I was going to suggest MediaMonkey because that is what I use.

 

I have playlists that go to about 200 tracks. And auto playlists that go to about 1000.

Posted on: 17 March 2017 by peterks

Would not say this is as easy/convenient as with the Naim app .... but the playlists remain accessible after re-installs and updates of the app. (I am using a Mu-so)

I am using Playlist Creator 3.6.2. You install it on your PC. (It works fine on Windows 10 as well)

It builds a M3U playlist, which can be stored on/written directly to your NAS. I have created a folder called Playlists on the NAS for that purpose. I am using MinimServer as music server, and has added the Playlists folder to the list of content directories that is being monitored/scanned.

In the Naim app, the playlists created appear under UPnP input->[name of UPnP server],; that is the same place where I can browse via categories like Albums, Items, Artist, All Artists, Composer, Date, Genre etc.

Note that if you re-organise your music on the NAS so that the UNC addresses of the tracks in your playlist changes, then I believe you will have to re-create the playlist(s) again. 

/Peter

Posted on: 17 March 2017 by sjbabbey

Peter,

If the location of  the audio files changes you can open your m3u playlist in notepad and simply edit the location using Find/Replace.

BTW thanks for the tip about this handy little app. Had to tweak a couple of settings for using with playlists on NAS e.g. forward slashes instead of backslashes in the directories but otherwise very easy and intuitive to use.

Posted on: 17 March 2017 by peterks

You are welcome sjbabbey. 

I think my point was that as far as I know there is no synchronisation built-in, so if file locations change, one would have to perform the appropriate updates manually.

/Peter

Posted on: 18 March 2017 by R.K

or for Mac OSX to minimserver I use Vox.  Need to save playlist as .m3u with relative path 

Posted on: 18 March 2017 by juanito

If your NAS uses Linux (as many do), you can re-direct the output of "grep -l flac" or similar to a text file, delete the tracks you don't need and rename the text file to playlist.m3u or similar.